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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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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.
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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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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*
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I sure am glad I don't have to worry about computer viruses...
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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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------------------ Frank's Home Page John Linnell: "You know, we actually know the next song we're going to play. We're talking about some personal stuff that concerns just me and John. I realize that this probably isn't the time or the place." John Flansburgh: "We can finish this conversation in the car."
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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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