Article View: demon.tech.pc
Article #22727Re: Has anyone received the new "I LOVE YOU" Virus email yet ?
From: Peter Hutchinson
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:00
22 lines
1815 bytes
1815 bytes
On Tue, 09 May 2000 21:08:34 +0100, John Naismith <john@naismith.demon.co.uk> wrote: > The latest variant is distinctly evil. It's the "Mother's Day" variant > & I can see this causing *major* problems. Basically it says you've > been invoiced for a couple of hundred dollars for your gift and can > you please check the attached invoice. Taking a leap of faith to hope that enough mail admins have become more clued as a result of last time, the Mother's Day variant has been on all the antivirus websites for days now so hopefully it won't hit quite as hard. Of course, we all know how much the world's postmasters learned as a result of Melissa, don't we kiddies :-( As for us, all known LoveLetter variants are being redirected to the bitbucket... -- Peter Hutchinson peter@news.hutch.org.uk Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3918889a.179470454@news.hutch-systems.co.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<Jaw4iIAg5VE5EwNK@hitechuk.demon.co.uk> <NAomfyA6JwE5Ewch@equipoise.demon.co.uk> <ZVFQ4.8098$E44.194907@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <QuUuoNAbbzE5EwsN@tgmead.demon.co.uk> <20000507.0015.12240snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <qsrj2KAKFUF5EwSG@isbjorn.demon.co.uk> <00050920425300.01030@rbris> <SW8YOW1NlAK++c+BUC+OXWfkAEf9@4ax.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,cc294bbc93feefe4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: nospam05@news.hutch.org.uk (Peter Hutchinson) Subject: Re: Has anyone received the new "I LOVE YOU" Virus email yet ? Date: 2000/05/09 Message-ID: <3918889a.179470454@news.hutch-systems.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 621330167 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: phutch.demon.co.uk:194.222.235.79 References: <Jaw4iIAg5VE5EwNK@hitechuk.demon.co.uk> <NAomfyA6JwE5Ewch@equipoise.demon.co.uk> <ZVFQ4.8098$E44.194907@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <QuUuoNAbbzE5EwsN@tgmead.demon.co.uk> <20000507.0015.12240snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <qsrj2KAKFUF5EwSG@isbjorn.demon.co.uk> <00050920425300.01030@rbris> <SW8YOW1NlAK++c+BUC+OXWfkAEf9@4ax.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 957913276 nnrp-10:17524 NO-IDENT phutch.demon.co.uk:194.222.235.79 Reply-To: peter@news.hutch.org.uk Newsgroups: demon.tech.pc X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net