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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

This virus, which I had contracted earlier today, has been going around Europe and started in the US earlier today. Its a lot like the Melissa virus, except its not as damaging.

One, it changes all your jpg files to 11k vbs files. It will create a vbs file with the name of your mp3 file and make your mp3 file a hidden file.

I was able to recover my computer and keep it from spreading, but at the cost of several jpgs, especially ones from my webpage. Good thing I can just download those.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, actually, I found out it IS more damaging...how about that.

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

top-of-the-hour news update on the radio today (about noon, Pacific time [US West Coast] on 4 May) said the US military is switching a lot of message traffic to high-security networks just to avoid this damn virus.

Will the guilty 14-year-old please stand up.

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Which is why you should NEVER EVER open ANY file attachment unless you're 100% sure of what it is...

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Got the same warning from my network admin.

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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

My roommate taped a hammer to his delete key to keep the message log from getting big (it FWDed itself to every address on our global access list).

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

Gah. Stupid virus.

It hit our school bright an early this morning... I got dragged out of bed because of it, too....... *tries not to be bitter about the lost sleep* Whole campus has been in chaos today... when will people learn????? *sigh*

~LOA

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I sure am glad I don't have to worry about computer viruses...

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Posted by KXZ (Member # 119) on :

On my http://www.sk.sympatico.ca ISP web page there is a big paragraph warning me about it. I didn't get the e-mail and I don't know if anyone else I know did. Maybe it hasn't hit Canada yet? It would be funny if it hit my school. At least for a minute until all my jpgs and messsed up.

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Well I found it in my Yahoo inbox. Luckily I just deleted it without looking at the message. So it has come to the US.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

It has come to the US, and done some pretty nasty stuff indeed.

Here's an additional note:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/04/iloveyou.03/index.html

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

I've got two friends and 8 PC's as proof that this darn virus can whipe clean a harddrive...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

People need to learn two things. One, don't open mysterious attachments. And two, don't use MS Outlook. :-)

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Or, better yet, just get a Mac.

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Under the First of Two Constitutional Tyrrany, perpetrators of such viruses will be punished by lining up everyone who is inconvenienced by their pranks and giving them each one free throw of a baseball-sized chunk of sharp obsidian.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

You people! All this complaining about virii and the like. Mere nothings. I recieved a large picture of an Englishman's "arse" the other day, and I can tell you it was far more horrifying than any system-crashing computer program.

(Of course, I cannot determine whether it is in fact English. But United Kingdom "arse", certainly.)

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

You think that Canada was spared from this virus? Our company's network got PASTED by this virus. Two hard drives had to be reformatted because they somehow weren't responding to the network anymore.

Turns out that my supervisor got this virus from her nephew. She thought it was a cute thing, so what could SHE do about it? My boss was in until the wee hours of the morning fixing this damned thing.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Sol, it was a arse of a girl, right?

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Posted by KXZ (Member # 119) on :

I just saw an article in the paper saying a suspect was a 23 year old guy in the Phillipenes. The found some way of tracing it.

(I'm back from a 11 day vactions in sunny California!)

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Michael: I should be so lucky...

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

SUCCES!!!

I have seen the ILOVEYOu thing om me harddrive, and succesfully deleted it!

There are two others that do the same:
JOKE and MOTHERSDAY

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Egad! I got that photo too. And quite distressing it was. In relation to the love bug, I just heard on the news that they have tracked it down to some German exchange student living in Australia. Sheesh, dem evil Huns.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Australia? What happened to Manila?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Apparently he set it off on Manila, so as not to leave a trace, but it seems he didn't do to good of a job there. We have guys in Sweden working on it too, sniffing on cloths.

What's more important is that "I love you" was just the beginning.
An even more vicious spawn of the virus is distributing itself now, called "Virus ALERT!!!" and get this, it disguises itself as a warning for the "I love you"-virus, so the ol' X-Files motto has never been more true. If you get a "warning" with said mail-name from a friend it can be the virus sending itself.

[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited May 07, 2000).]

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Oh, and that cloth-sniffing metaphor was a reference to bloodhounds, nothing else!!!

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

SHIT...
The local government has no laws against computer crimes, so she actually hasn't done anything illegal and therefore cannot be arrested in Manila...
There you go FBI, with your fancy tech..

Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Someone here on the network captured the payload of the virus into a DOC file so one can edit it... I think I'm going to report him.

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