RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. A new WORM (virus)
    2. rhioreh
    3. Hi folks, My husband sent this on to me. All the employees at this school received it and I thought I would pass it along. Rhio listowner ============================= A new mass-mailing worm (VIRUS) hit the Internet on Sunday and is spreading rapidly. The new worm is known as Myparty.A and arrives as an e-mail with the subject line "New photos from my party!" The body of the message reads as follows: "Hello! My party...It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks." There is an attachment named www.myparty.yahoo.com, which does not point to any Web page and is instead a disguised executable file. When executed, the file uses its own SMTP engine to mail itself to everyone in the infected PCs Microsoft Outlook address book. Symantec Corp gave Myparty.A a severity rating of three on a five-point scale.

    01/29/2002 10:09:09