Email-Aware Worm

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Dear Mother Madhusudani Radha and all devotees,

 

 

The virus is called w32.newapt.worm. This is an email-aware worm that

forwards itself as an attached executable file in an email message to

addresses in your address book.

 

If you see the following text:

he, your lame client cant read HTML,

haha. click attachment to see some

stunningly HOT stuff

 

or you get a an attachment that says the following:

 

 

http://stuart.messagemates.com/index.html

Hypercool Happy Year 2000 funny

programs and animations?. We

attached our recent animation from

this site in our mail ! Check it

out!

 

DO NOT RUN THIS EXECUTABLE. It will start sending itself out to everyone in

your address book. Also be wary of any message of this nature with an

attachment that is sent to you supposedly from your own address!

This worm virus is spreading like wildfire over the Internet. My company,

Medical Manager Research & Development, has been infected and has removed the

virus. If you have run the executable, your computer has been infected. You'll

have to use an anti-virus software to get rid of it. Since the virus is brand

new, you'll probably have to get the latest downloads for the anti-virus

software that you use.

 

Good luck!

 

BTW, ALWAYS BE WARY OF EMAIL ATTACHMENTS!

 

Your servant,

 

Pancha Tattva dasa

 

 

On 17 Dec 1999, Madhusudani Radha wrote:

 

> At 10:52 -0500 12/17/1999, COM: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)

wrote:

> >[Text 2865599 from COM]

> >

> >I just received an e-mail -- supposedly from "Noma Petroff" entitled

> >North American GBC Executive Committee on Y2K"

> >

> >This e-mail is **not** from me. It contains an attachment which invites

> >the reader to download funny messages. I suspect that it is some kind

> >of virus.

>

>

> Apparently this is an even bigger problem. Someone else got a letter

> with this attachment too (different header) in a text that seemed

> like it was from COM *and* from himself. I have forwarded it to the

> COM sysop.

>

> Please don't open any documents that come from yourselves or that

> have an attachment called "party.exe" . There is also a URL to a

> website for funny messages.

>

> I will check with out with our network manager at work today. If

> anyone else has any info, please share it with the rest of us.

>

> Ys,

> Madhusudani dasi

>