Re: ::BuffyWantsWillow:: VIRUS WARNING!!! DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON.......

["Quindo Ma" <quindo.ma@xxxxxxxxx>]

I feel the need to step in here and explain a few things.

First off, the email adress is a fake. It's worthless. The virus itself changes it to that adress,
and so far I have gotten this virus twice, both over different paths, and most likely from different
ppl.

Second, this virus is a worm, that is insofar different from normal viruses, as a worm does NOT need
to be activated. It becomes active simply by viewing the mail in Outlook, or at least, that is what
I have been able to understand.
Below is info from the Norton SARC, which I got when a warnng about this virus from there.

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W95.Hybris.Gen Moderate [4]
Win95

Due to a recent increase in world-wide infections of this worm, SARC is
increasing the threat level of this worm to 4.

W95.Hybris is a worm that spreads by email as an attachment to outgoing
emails. It was discovered in late September of 2000. Although very few
reports of infection were reported in October 2000 when the worm was
discovered, the worm is becoming more common in November and December

The message may include the text "Snow White and the Seven dwarves" and the
attachment may have one of several different names, including, but not
limited to:

anpo porn(.scr
atchim.exe
branca de neve.scr
dunga.scr
dwarf4you.exe
enano porno.exe
joke.exe
midgets.scr
sexy virgin.scr

Use Norton AntiVirus to repair the infected WSOCK32.DLL. Other files
detected as W95.Hybris contain only the virus body and must be deleted.