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    1. [KSCRAWFO] Virus warning
    2. steve brooks
    3. Got this from another list Important enough to pass on the warning Carol Please beware of this destructive virus sweeping the US and Europe. If you get an E-Mail with Subject: "ILOVEYOU" do not open the attachment shown below. The following is an excerp from cnn.com Destructive 'ILOVEYOU' computer virus strikes worldwide On Thursday, saying "ILOVEYOU" was especially hard to do. A self-propagating computer worm has infected computers in Asia, Europe and the United States. Computer experts said they were stunned by the speed and wide reach of the virus -- which struck members of U.S. Congress and British parliament -- and warned computer users not to open the "Love Letter" attachment that comes with the contaminated e-mail. "It appears to be the same sort of class of virus as Melissa," the e-mail virus that overwhelmed computer systems around the world about a year ago, said Bill Pollack, spokesman for the CERT Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, a government-chartered computer security team.

    05/04/2000 01:37:49