Posted by John Eickhof on Wednesday, February 07, 2001 at 9:29PM :
Here's what my ISP Northrim.net has to say about it...VIRUS WARNING
Last month we warned you about a nasty little virus making the rounds. It was
addressed from "hahaha@sexyfun.net" and referred to "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarves -- The REAL Story". When activated, it emails copies of itself to
just about anything that it can find on your computer that looks like an email
address. It does this in the "background" while your connected to the Internet
without you knowing about it... Well, it's STILL making the rounds. It appears that
the infected email has an attachment that uses a VB (Visual Basic) scr1pt to
launch it. EVEN IF YOU DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY! Evidently, the Outlook Express
email program 'automatically' runs the attachment, thus infecting your computer.
The fix appears to be turning off VB scr1pt support in Windows. If you're using the
Netscape products or other third party email program, it doesn't activate the
virus...You will need an UP TO DATE virus scanner software such as Norton's
Anti-Virus installed and WORKING on your computer to rid yourself of this little
pest.
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