EMAIL VIRUS ALERT (Sorry Out Of Topic)

[Winardi <winardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> MICROSOFT is warning people of an invasive virus being spread by email.
> People (including top corporate leaders) are taking this seriously and I
> want to warn you so that you can avoid being infected or affecting
> others.
> 
> The Virus is contained in an email message with a subject line that
> starts:
> 
> Important Message From  <name >
> The message contains text to the effect:
> " here is the document that you asked me for"
> 
> There is a word attachment called  list.doc
> 
> DO NOT CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENT TO OPEN IT.
> 
> IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE JUST DELETE IT  UNREAD
> 
> The virus is brand new, if activated it takes names of people from  your
> address books and contacts lists and sends email from you to them and
> thereby spreads the Virus.
> It is known as W97Mailissa. 
> This is a real virus and not a false alarm.
>  
> It is particularly aimed at Microsoft Word and Outlook users and is
> spread by any mail system using MAPI calls but seems to cause most
> disruption to Exchange users.
>  
> When a user receives an infected message and opens the MS Word
> attachment contained in it, the virus causes about 50 messages to be
> sent in that users name to people selected from that users address books
> and contact list.
>  
> There are two key results of opening the affected MS Word attachment:
>  
> 1. Corporate mail systems are overloaded and  may fail due to the volume
> of mail generated at peak times.
>  
> 2. The individual is embarrassed because of the content of the emails
> generated.  The attachment contains addresses of sex sites on the
> Internet with the implication that the named individual is a regular
> visitor to them.
> 
> Things you can do to avoid getting and/or spreading the virus:
>  
> If you see a message with a subject line starting with 
> "Important Message From"  delete it without reading it.
>  
> If you get a message which contains the text "This is the 
> document you asked for ....don't show anyone else" 
> do not open the attachment but delete the message.
> 
> Do not create any new mail  messages using the words 
> " Important Message From" in the subject line. Otherwise the
> recipient(s) will destroy your message, fearing that it contains the
> virus.
> 
> For those who have more info about this virus, please let me know.
> 
For more information visit this site :

>      http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/28/email.virus/
> 
> 
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