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Re: Worm

What was significant or tragic about how the virus spread in our corporation was it went to all employees from our own IT (MIS or MIT) department. We all opened the files thinking anything from the IT department would not be infected. our offices in most major

Rumor has it, it came from a former and still disgruntled IT employee to discredit his former girlfriend  who still works here in the IT department.......
My apologies.
Rawlin
 

Barry Cooper wrote:

 This looks like another outbreak of the worm we discussed a few weeks ago.
It looks in your mail program for addresses and uses these to spoof the
sender. The might say they come from killietalk, but they don't. You should
NEVER open ANY executable attachments without checking them for viruses
first. This worm attaches one of a number of .exe files to the message. You
can get more info on sites such as www.symantec.com.
Barry

At 06:12 PM 2/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Please do not open any exe or attachments to any e-mail from me. It is
>infected with "The Worm" virus. I apologize profusely for accidentally
>transmitting it.
>
 Barry J. Cooper, Prof., Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell UniversityCurrent address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd.Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)

 
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