Watch for "ILOVEYOU" loveletter.VBS bug

From: Nick Oliviero <oliv555_at_arrl.net>
Date: Thu May 4 20:57:01 2000

Allison,

My comment was meant (kiddingly) as retort to Dave's m$ comment;
no offense meant. Interestingly, my firewall has reported 3 attacks today
all from differing intruders and citing the NetBus, UDP and SebSeven
trojan horses. Guess this new worm has brought out the pranksters.

As far as the LOVELETTER worm on my work system, I'll try the technique
you described when I get back to work. Could'nt get it deleted remotely.

allisonp wrote:

> >Whoa...hold your fire..... while I haven't seen this particular beastie,
> my
> >BlackIce Defender just set off an alarm for an attack attempt with the
>
> The LOVELETTER worm is real, my partners site is hammered by it.
>
> I got a copy of it today on the shell account <where it's harmless>
> and it likely can hurt me much if at all on the NTbox (you need those
> virus/worm/trogan helpers like active-x).
>
> No a desktop system at work does not need active-x nor does it need
> hotmail/instant-messenger (or chat, netmeeting to name a few more).
>
> Allison
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 20:57:01 BST