Re: VIRUS - REAL!!!! You may have it!!!

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Well, I had TRIED to open it and seemingly nothing happened...when I ran a virus
scan I found out otherwise.  So, just because nothing happens, does NOT mean
nothing happened...it DID to me...

Funny, ever since I tried to open it yesterday, I have been having all kinds of
problems executing programs....  seems consistent with what we were warned about
on the website.

I ran the cleaner, rebooted and seem to be back to normal (except for ridecamp
messages)

Teddy

Duncan Fletcher wrote:

> You have to open the PrettyPark.exe attached file to be infected. There are
> no viruses (or worms) that can be transmitted via e-mail directly to an
> e-mail program that is properly functioning. There is a bug in Outlook
> Express that could allow that, but there is a patch to correct that bug
> available on Microsofts web site: see
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/Bulletins/ms99-032.asp. (The patch was
> posted a month before the first virus exploiting it was discovered.) In fact
> there are several security type bugs for which there are patches available
> at Microsoft for IE, Windows, and OE. See
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/current.asp. This site also
> contains information for a wide variety of internet products (Windows,
> MacIntosh, Server Software), and not all are pertinent to any given system.
> You have to filter through them. If you use a different browser/e-mail
> progam, check the appropriate website for similar information.
>
> Duncan Fletcher
> dfletche@gte.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>
>
> > This is NOT a joke....look up this website and see for yourself.  I have
> > received this virus and it may be passed on to ANY of you as it is a
> > worm that send itself to everyone in the address book of the person who
> > received it.  You do NOT have to "open" it to have it on your system.  I
> > am having my password changed by my server in an attempt to negate it's
> > functionality.
> >
> > http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/prettyp.htm
> > --
> [snip]

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