Isn't it kind of simple? Don't open attachments, period, especially those
marked "ILOVEYOU".
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Clendon Gibson <bsandyman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:30 PM
Subject: [OM] Virus Alert OT
> The virus hit the company I work at to.
>
> In general, if you do not have an e-mail program that
> automatically executes attachments in your e-mails you
> should be fine. If you use Pine for example, or the
> Yahoo web e-mail. (Note: I think both of these program
> will allow you to "launch" attachements. If you do
> that all bets are off.)
>
> The people most at risk are those who use Microsoft
> Outlook.
>
> The "ILOVEYOU" virus is run as a Visual Basic Script.
> It changes things in the windows registry. If you read
> mail on a UNIX box, you should be immune.
>
>
>
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