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Started by Colin R. Leech
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
RESOUR> [DUC] New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail
Author: Colin R. Leech
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
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Forwarded from comp.internet.net-happenings: > From: BBracey@aol.com [mailto:BBracey@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 1:45 AM > To: duc@egroups.com > Subject: [DUC] New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail > > New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail > http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/11comp.html > By JOHN MARKOFF > > SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer researchers Thursday reported a malicious > computer program that is spreading rapidly through the Internet by > E-mail and destroying documents created by widely used Microsoft > software programs. > > Several large corporations, including Boeing, AT&T and General Electric, > said their computers had been infected and moved to limit the damage, in > some cases by shutting down their E-mail systems. Employees of > Microsoft, Intel and the anti-virus software maker Symantec said they > had also been hit. > > The attacking program shows up as an E-mail attachment. When opened, it > embeds itself in the computer's software, destroying files created by > common applications like Word, Powerpoint and Excel and propagating > itself to the victim's E-mail correspondents. It is far more dangerous > than the Melissa computer virus. > -- #### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca #### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. #### > < Opinions are my own. You may consider them shareware. #### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
Re: RESOUR> [DUC] New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail
Author: Plumed Basilisk
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
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In ott.online Colin R. Leech <ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote: >> SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer researchers Thursday reported a malicious >> computer program that is spreading rapidly through the Internet by >> E-mail and destroying documents created by widely used Microsoft >> software programs. People that get this deserve it, as with Melissa and Happy99.exe -- I've never read a posting in my life that I couldn't disagree with purely for sport.
Re: RESOUR> [DUC] New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail
Author: Bob Carrick
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
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What a rude inconsiderate thing to say, someone piss in your Cornflakes this morning, *censored comments* Bob -- For those who believe, no explanation is necessary... For those who do not, none will suffice... http://www3.sympatico.ca/bcarrick/ Plumed Basilisk <Rob.Russell@[www.cauce.org]Canada.Com> wrote in message news:7jtfp8$bh0$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca... > In ott.online Colin R. Leech <ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote: > >> SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer researchers Thursday reported a malicious > >> computer program that is spreading rapidly through the Internet by > >> E-mail and destroying documents created by widely used Microsoft > >> software programs. > > People that get this deserve it, as with Melissa and Happy99.exe > > -- > I've never read a posting in my life that I couldn't > disagree with purely for sport.
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