Another Virus Warning
Hi Guys: My wife finally forwarded e-mail sent to my other address (that she's now using) and the following info from that ISP was among the messages. It's a week old, but contains good info. As always, never double-click on or otherwise open any attachment to an e-mail if you have even the slightest doubt about its origin and genuineness. Note that the latest viruses are mining data from address books and make it look like you're getting an e-mail and attachment from someone you know. Always, always double-check if you have any doubts at all about a file you receive, especially any with .exe extensions. If you delete the message with a suspect attachment, and then empty your e-mail software's trash folder, you are safe. Jeff ========== This has been brought to our attention and we felt that it was worth sending out to all of you to keep you aware of a potential virus threat. We cannot stress strongly enough that you should be running a reliable virus scanner to prevent infection from files off the Internet. A new, very nasty melissa-type virus just hit us. If you get a message that looks like this: "Hi! I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP. Till then, please take a look at the attached zipped docs. bye. <<zipped_files.exe Under no circumstances click on the attachment. It will nuke all Excel and Word files it can find, and redo it every 30 minutes. This is a very nasty one. It nestles itself in the \WINNT\System32\ directory and the culprit is called Explore.exe Also, you need to get rid of a key in the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows and delete run= C:\WINNT\System32\explore.exe. I'm sure there will be much more said about this, but for the moment, warn all your users, and do not open that attachment!!! Deleting the email without opening that attachment will cause no further harm. This is hammered out in a hurry, and is just a heads up. Sorry if we are not complete as yet. Time is of the utmost essence! Check the websites of your anti-virus software vendors for more detail. More details on the Symantec web site: www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html