Re: *** Off topic: ILOVEYOU virus warning ***

Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >Europe and Africa are being hammered by a new Outlook-replicated virus which >has the subject line "ILOVEYOU" with an attachment called >LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs. It seems that the amount of network traffic it >generates can bring mailservers to their knees... It's so nice to get an actual virus warning for a change instead of one of the many hoaxes floating around. To borrow one of the more common descriptions, "This is a particularly nasty one." Brought the House of Commons' mail server to a halt in the UK, slammed Dow Jones Newswire Asia (the company spokesperson said she got 5 copies in a row and was suspicious until she got one from Dow Jones Newswire, so she opened that one! Yeah, "ILOVEYOU" is just the sort of message I'd expect from a corporate entity. Right.) carlos Currently on hiatus from unemployment. ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com

Yeah, thanks O! I kinda wish I would have seen it about 30 minutes earlier, we got hammered this morning... In article <8es9f8$cf5$1@news.xmission.com>, Carlos Benjamin <benj@linuxstart.com> wrote: > > Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Europe and Africa are being hammered by a new Outlook-replicated virus which > >has the subject line "ILOVEYOU" with an attachment called > >LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs. It seems that the amount of network traffic it > >generates can bring mailservers to their knees... > > It's so nice to get an actual virus warning for a change instead of one of the many hoaxes floating around. To borrow one of the more common descriptions, "This is a particularly nasty one." Brought the House of Commons' mail server to a halt in the UK, slammed Dow Jones Newswire Asia (the company spokesperson said she got 5 copies in a row and was suspicious until she got one from Dow Jones Newswire, so she opened that one! Yeah, "ILOVEYOU" is just the sort of message I'd expect from a corporate entity. Right.) > > carlos > > Currently on hiatus from unemployment. > ---------------------- > Do you do Linux? :) > Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com > > -- # unrm / ksh: unrm: not found # man cpio Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.