The LoveBug virus is alive and well

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is neither mundane nor pointless, but unless I downgrade the language and post to the pit no other forum seems to really fit.

The LoveBug virus struck our office today. Everyone in the office saw 4 messages from one of our coworkers. Upon examining the message it was clear that a virus/worm was at play. I sent a warning (high priority) to the entire company telling them to NOT open any attachment called “Very Funny”, but that only helped a little. Somebody else thought that they were getting jokes in the mail and opened the attachment. WHAM! Everyone got four copies from this source as well.

I sincerely hope that everyone is careful with their e-mail attachments.

When the going gets tough,
The tough get duct tape. :wally

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Did it set the home page to 202.78.86.25?
BTW don’t go there, children.

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Nope. It set the home page to “win-bug-fix.exe” on a remote server.

Apparently someone was ahead of this reincarnation and the page now contained a virus warming and links to several trustworthy sites, such as symantec.

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So how would someone do that? It appears to be what happend in our case, but the page was really very crude.