From: "Linda Skelton" <>
Subject: [SCCOLLET] Important Information from Chad
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:51:14 -0400
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010729181716.00afd360@pop3.norton.antivirus>
Linda W. Skelton
St. George, Dorchester Co., SC
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 6:35 PM
> Since I am not the kind of person who sends out inane virus warnings, you
> should know that this one is legitimate.
>
> Friday, my office was attacked by a computer virus known as the SirCam
> worm. It's a very nasty one that took 7 hours to remove from our office
> systems. The SirCam worm is just like the Melissa virus and automatically
> emails itself out to people in your address book.
>
> Symantec, the makes of Norton AntiVirus, have posted information on how to
> remove the SirCam worm at the following address:
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/ type="text/javascript">DisplayMail('mm.html','w32.sircam.worm');
>
> Below is a description of what the email will be like. If you get such an
> email, delete it immediately!
>
> Subject: The subject of the email will be random, and will be the same as
> the file name of the email attachment.
> Attachment: The attachment is a file taken from the sender's computer and
> will have the extension .bat, .com, .lnk or .pif added to it.
> Message: The message body will be semi-random, but will always contain one
> of the following two lines (either English or Spanish) as the first and
> last sentences of the message.
>
> Spanish Version:
> First line: Hola como estas ?
> Last line: Nos vemos pronto, gracias.
>
> English Version:
> First line: Hi! How are you?
> Last line: See you later. Thanks
>
> Between these two sentences, some of the following text may appear:
>
> Spanish Version:
> Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista
> Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando
> Espero te guste este archivo que te mando
> Este es el archivo con la informaci=n que me pediste
>
> English Version:
> I send you this file in order to have your advice
> I hope you can help me with this file that I send
> I hope you like the file that I send you
> This is the file with the information that you ask for
>