[WinMac] Breaking the Friday monotony, virus-style

Jason Sellers(JasonDS[at]extremezone.com)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:28:06 -0700

A company I'm working with just got hit with a massive virus. It comes to
your machine in the form of a Word file attachment. The message itself
says "An important message from..." in the subject. When you open the
attachment, it automatically puts your name in the subject line (i.e. "An
important message from Jason Sellers") and sends the email, attachment
included, to HUNDREDS of people.

Needless to say this spreads like WILDFIRE, as it only takes a couple
curious people to replicate it hundred-fold. This is a HUGE company
(50,000 worldwide) standardized on Exchange and Outlook, so as you can
imagine it's creating quite a headache for mail support personel around the
globe. No details yet, all I know is that Scanmail on the Exchange servers
is not catching it.

WOW! What a way to break the Friday afternoon monotony!! ;-)

Jason

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