The I Love You Virus

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The I Love You Virus

There is a new virus out that has been getting a lot of publicity lately. This virus is called the I Love You virus. Basically it comes in an email and when you click on the attachment, it rewrites files and sends stored passwords to an email address included. Then it sends itself to the people listed in your address book and does the same to them. Now it has been designed to effect people who use Outlook Express, but it is dangerous nonetheless.

A good link for an information on this is: http://exn.ca/html/templates/exntv-newsbytes.cfm?ID=20000505-05.
A good link for more in depth information about what it does: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.loveletter.a.html
This includes a link to a fix including easy to follow instructions: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/fix.vbs.loveletter.html.
This link provides other methods to protect yourself from this type of virus: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-04.html.

This is just an overview of the information available on the I Love You virus. For more information please visit your favorite search engine looking up I Love You.