[Groop] Just incase you didn't know already... Virus Alert

tricia@radiocbs.com tricia@radiocbs.com
Thu, 4 May 2000 12:31:51 -0400


THANKS SHANE!  I actually have rec'd 4 warnings about this one today
alone, I haven't rec'd this particular email (thank goodness!).  I make
a habit of deleting any emails that I can't indentify without opening
them.  

Thanks for the bona-fide computer geek info!

Trish aka Goalielover

> ----------
> From: 	Shane Clarke[SMTP:sac@foolarchy.com]
> Sent: 	4-May-2000 12:31
> To: 	groop@groo.com
> Subject: 	[Groop] Just incase you didn't know already... Virus
> Alert
> 
> Do not open an email with the subject of "I LOVE YOU"
> 
> The attachment is a virus that will destroy all .JPG and .MP3 files on
> your 
> computer and then look for you email address book and send itself to
> all 
> your known email addresses.
> 
> It is indeed real. It's on the news. It started in Hong Kong and has 
> already made it to America in no time. I work for the 2nd largest ISP
> in 
> the nation, 4000+ employees, we are on a Microsoft exchange server
> (this is 
> all geek information) and one person in the company opened the
> attachment 
> and now the virus has infiltrated the exchange server... so I had
> several 
> hundred emails waiting for me..
> 
> I find all rather funny, though!
> 
> But just a warning for those of you that aren't up to date on this 
> things... this one is not a hoax... it's real.
> 
> (And yes I'm a bonafied computer geek!)
> 
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