New E-mail Virus Warning

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Don’t know if anyone else has posted this elsewhere, but I picked this up from the AP Newswire and thought I’d pass it on—

Fresh from fending off the insistent advances of an e-mail
virus disguised as a love letter, computer users were facing
new variations of the destructive bug, one concealed as a
joke, another as a confirmation notice for a Mother’s Day gift order.

At least five variations of the bug were spreading today,
according to computer security company F-Secure Corp. in
San Jose, Calif. One version comes with an attachment labeled “Very Funny,” while another arrives as confirmation that the recipient’s credit card has been charged $326.92 for a Mother’s Day “diamond special,” urging the reader to click on an attachment to print the invoice. Opening either attachment releases the bug.

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Thanks for the warning, Eve. I’m passing it onto our tech crew at work. We got fairly fried by the I Love You bug.

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This is what is being sent around my office:

The message has a subject of MOTHERS DAY ORDER COMFORMATION. This Virus is a varation of the ILOVEYOU message from yesterday.

There is also another Virus going around. The message has a subject of FORWARD THIS JOKE. This Virus is more SEVERE than the ILOVEYOU message from yesterday.

I hope this helps.