The virus is the SirCam Worm. just came out.
If you are on Outlook and PC, the fix is at
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
Technical description:
This worm arrives as an email message with the following content:
Subject: The subject of the email will be random, and could be the same as
the file name of the attachment in the email.
Attachment: The attachment will be a file taken from the sender's computer
and will have the extension .bat, .com, .lnk or .pif added to it.
Message: The message body will be semi-random, but will always contain one
of the following two lines (either English or Spanish) as the first and last
sentences of the message.
The fix is toward the bottom of the page, after the description
Bob Eiffert, Who is spending more time on computers than working on the '65
> From: "JustBrits" <justbrits@home.com>
> Reply-To: "JustBrits" <justbrits@home.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:51:38 -0500
> To: "Fisher & Elizabeth Jones" <fisher@hctc.net>,
> "Spridgets"<spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Virus
>
> E., etal:
>
> Go here, sign up for FREE notifications. UNFOTYUNATELY, unless you are a
> UMich student.employee/grad can't have their program. But NOTICES are WAY
> fast. Got mine on Fri.
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~virus-busters
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