Fw: Watch Out for - Love Letter For You Virus

["Jane & Howard Minor" <jeminor@webzone.net>]

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Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:00 AM
Subject: Watch Out for - Love Letter For You Virus

Thought this might beworth passing on, especially if it could save someone
from a problem.
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>Howard
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>                    09:40 AM             Subject:      Watch Out for - Love
Letter For You Virus
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>Please do not open any Email that has in the Title:
>Love Letter For You. or I Love You
>
>There is a very dangerous virus circulating today that can corrupt your
>machine if you open this
>email.  So please delete this email and not open it.
>
>
>From CNN:
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>Computer 'ILOVEYOU' bug hits U.S., Asian,
>                  European businesses, government
>
>                  May 4, 2000
>                  Web posted at: 8:54 AM EDT (1254 GMT)
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>                  HONG KONG (AP) -- A computer virus
>                  spread by e-mail messages titled
>                  "ILOVEYOU" infected U.S., Asian and
>                  European computers today, apparently
>                  hitting public relations firms and
>                  investment banks in Asia particularly
>                  hard.
>
>                  The virus appeared in Hong Kong late in the afternoon,
>spreading throughout
>                  e-mail systems once a user opened one of the contaminated
>messages.
>
>                  Nomura International (HK) Ltd. in Hong Kong was affected,
>an analyst there
>                  said, as was Nomura's London office. In Asia, Dow Jones
>Newswires and the
>                  Asian Wall Street Journal were among the victims.
>
>                  "It crashed all the computers," said Daphne Ghesquiere, a
>Dow Jones
>                  spokeswoman in Hong Kong. "You get the message and the
>topic says
>                  ILOVEYOU, and I was among the stupid ones to open it. I
>got about five at one
>                  time and I was suspicious, but one was from Dow Jones
>Newswires, so I
>                  opened it."
>
>                  The "love bug" also invaded some computers in the United
>States this morning,
>                  but there was no immediate word on the severity.
>
>                  Once the message was opened, Ghesquiere said, it began
>sending the virus to
>                  other e-mail addresses within the Dow Jones computers,
>blocking people's ability
>                  to send and receive e-mail. Victims sometimes received
>dozens of e-mails, all
>                  contaminated.
>
>                  "I have no idea how it got through the firewall,"
>Ghesquiere said. "It's supposed
>                  to be protected."
>
>                  The virus was spreading in Europe as well. In Denmark,
>the parliament, telecom
>                  company Tele Danmark, channel TV2 and the Environment and
>Energy Ministry
>                  were all affected starting this morning.
>
>                  "We have no clue how it got in," said Hugo Praestegaard
>of the Environment and
>                  Energy Ministry.
>
>                  Credit Suisse First Boston issued a global e-mail memo
>warning employees not to
>                  open the messages, said company official Tom Grimmer in
>Hong Kong. He said
>                  the virus had not infiltrated the investment bank's
>computer system.
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