Guest guest Posted May 4, 2000 Report Share Posted May 4, 2000 This one is NOT a hoax! >'I Love You' Bug Hits Computers >Virus Delivered by E-mail Spreads Quickly It's a Windows virus. Here's a filter for it for those who use Eudora for email: http://www.ncha.org/public/virusfilter/ILOVEYOU_Virus_Filter.sit *For Windows users: Sophos reports a worm and a Trojan: >Name: VBS/LoveLet-A >Aliases: The Love Bug >Type: Visual Basic Script worm >Detection: Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.34 or later. An update >(IDE file) is available for earlier versions from the Latest virus >identities section. >snip< > >Name: Troj/LoveLet-A >Type: Trojan >Detection: Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.34 or later. -snip- For more info, see http://www.sophos.com *For Mac users: >From Macintouch.com readers: >[Michael McHargue] "The new ILOVEYOU virus is a visual basic script. I >opened it using BBEdit. This virus is VERY dependant on Microsoft >technology and a Mac port would be very difficult. The virus writes to the >registry and depends on the registry keys it creates to run. It also >depend on reading an Outlook (not Outlook Express) address book. After >that it uses a simple loop to replicate itself to everyone in your address >book." > >[Tony Ricciardi] "We have been dealing with the 'I Love You' Virus since >this morning and have had some issues. While it does not specifically >effect the Mac, it does effect mac files if they reside on an infected NT >server as we have discovered today. Many .jpg files on one of our clients >servers were damaged. We immediately recognized the files as having been >effected due to their file names being altered from 'image.jpg' to >image.jpg.vbs." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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