# New E-mail Virus Warning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-e-mail-virus-warning/18687>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 5, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-e-mail-virus-warning/18687 "2000-05-05T18:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-e-mail-virus-warning/18687/1 "2000-05-05T18:10:48Z")

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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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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-e-mail-virus-warning/18687/2 "2000-05-05T18:19:45Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-e-mail-virus-warning/18687/3 "2000-05-05T18:36:56Z")

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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.