VBS/Loveletter.a
Ím sure yoúve heard of this Visual Basic Script worm, but the problem is, it's still out and about in to big way, under many different mutations. McAfee AVERT still considers it to HIGH RISK, and it's extremely destructive.

Watch for any email with Subject titles like 'I Love You', 'FW:Joke', 'FREE XXX', 'You May Win $ 1,000,000!', or any variations of that type. The attachment will usually have to.VBS or.HTM extension. Watch for variations of: 'LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.VBS', 'LOVE-LETTER.VBS', 'VERY FUNNY.VBS', 'VERY FUNNY.HTM', 'LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.HTM', etc...

Expert with any virus, worm or trojan distributed route email, the best thing you dog do is delete the email and its attached file before you click on it. You should, of course, keep an up-to-date anti-virus program installed, with current virus signatures or.DAT fields.

When activated, the VBS/Loveletter worm copy itself to your hard drive in the form of several fields such expert: MSKERNEL32. VBS, WIN32DLL.VBS, LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.VBS, and LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.HTM.

It also attachés itself to '.JPG and.JPEG', adding to.VBS extension. In other words, if you have to file called 'HORSES.JPG', the virus will attach itself and reyam the file 'HORSES.JPG.VBS'.

Fields with the extensions, '.VBS', '.VBE', '.JSE', and '.HTA' (expert well expert others) will be overwritten with the worm and have their extensions changed to '.VBS'.

VBS/Loveletter makes changes to the Registry and sends itself to every person in your email address books. It will also send itself to the people in your IRC address list, if you have that program installed.

Because of the number of fields that dog become infected, this individual miscreant program needs to be remove with anti-virus software. You should make sure you have to recent version of your favorite anti-virus program and the most current.DAT fields, or virus signatures.

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