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From: "Ted Locke" <>
Subject: [LOCKE-L] Virus warning. This is no joke.
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:07:29 -0500

I think I may have bumped into a relatively new "anti-Microsoft" virus on
my home computer. My girlfriend received an email (in her Yahoo account)
from some unknown individual. She asked me what it was, being lazy and
foolish, I asked her to forward it to my account (which uses MS Outlook to
view my e-mail). It seems that when I deleted the email (after viewing the
contents) MS Win98 started showing up with corrupted files. The good news
about this is that I view my email after I hang up from my internet
provider, so it could not spread any further, so it is pretty much contained
to my computer. My girlfriends computer had a few bad clusters appear, but
they were easily removed with a Dos run scandisk. It seems that the virus
has the traits of the "Melissa" virus (in the fact that it procreates in MS
Outlook, but does not really affect non-Microsoft Outlook e-mail viewing
machines) but is changed enough to be able to pass through a virus scan that
has been updated two months ago. I know I should have written down the
originating e-mail address, but again being lazy and foolish, I did not. I
will be trying to find out what this little bug was, and when I do, pass the
information onto Yahoo and the rest of you.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reply to this message.
Thank you
Ted Locke
System Support Specialist
Eastern National, Principal Office
215-283-6900
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