How is it passed around? By what is it recognised? Is there a particular
message going round containing it? If so, does it have a subject line?
Is VB Script different to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)? Many (most?)
Microsoft products use VBA as the macro language so could be much wider than
just users of the VB development language.
PaulH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
To: JustBrits@aol.com <JustBrits@aol.com>; Spridgets
<spridgets@autox.team.net>; MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 09 October 1999 16:08
Subject: Re: Virus...NOT A CHAIN OR HOAX!!!
>Yea its real, but if you don't use Microsofts Visual Basic you shouldn't
>be affected (and who doesn't use Word or Excel). Or if you use a Mac.
>
>Larry
>
>>>>>On 10/8/99 8:10 PM so and so (JustBrits@aol.com) said. (And I quote:)
>
>>Folks, checked it out myself on the Univ of Mich site. It is real.
Here's
>>the UM site (direct):
>>
>>University of Michigan Virus Busters....
>>http://www.itd.umich.edu/~wwwitd/virus-busters/
>>
>>and another check point:
>>
>>http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/freelink.htm
>>
>>In a message dated 10/07/1999 7:29:49 PM Central Daylight Time, Cybrat01
>>writes:
>>
>><< orwarded Message:
>> Subj: [virus-alert] VBS/Freelink Discovered in July now on AVERT Watch
>>List, Medium Risk
>> Date: 10/06/1999 6:14:21 PM Central Daylight Time
>> From: AVERT_ALERT@NAI.com (AVERT ALERT)
>> Sender: owner-virus-alert@lists.nai.com
>> Reply-to: owner-virus-alert@lists.nai.com
>> To: virus-alert@lists.nai.com ('virus-alert@lists.nai.com')
>>
>> AVERT would like to inform you that it has placed VBS/Freelink, a VB
Script
>> infector, on the AVERT Watch List. It was discovered in July and there
has
>> been a significant number of reports from NAI customers over the past two
>> weeks.
>>
>> For more information, product update data, and recommendations please
click
>> the URL below.
>>
>> The virus has no destructive payload and can only go to HIGH if the
>> prevalence gets to "Outbreak" status.
>>
>> http://vil.nai.com/vil/vbs10225.asp
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> AVERT
>> >>
>
>
>Larry Macy
>78 Midget
>
>Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
>Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>System Manager/Administrator
>Neuropsychiatry Section
>Department of Psychiatry
>University of Pennsylvania
>3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
>Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
>question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
>
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