Griffin Moss (terryroth@earthlink.net)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:48:03 -0800
Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The message entitled Important Message From Alan Bradford should be
> deleted from your email. It is harmless unless you execute the file
> attatched to it.
>
> It contains an attatchment with the melissa virus. This virus
> will infect computers that have the two software packages:
>
> Microsoft Word 97 or Word 2000 for word processing and
> Microsoft Outlook for email (Outlook Express, however, is not affected)
>
> If you have this combination of software delete the message without
> opening or executing the attatchment.
>
> If you do not have this combination of software you are not at risk.
>
> Thank you Jeffrey for pointing this out.
>
> In addition to Jeffrey's reference see:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3233.html
>
> This is a nasty virus and has wreaked havoc (mostly by bringing down
> mailservers)
>
> Gord
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
> holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
> http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
> Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
> Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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I have both Outlook and Word 97, this virus hosed my boot sector (I
uninstalled and reinstalled print drivers after using WORD, but the
reboot failed; this is an unusual circumstance, I get a DLL not found
message "failed to find file WINGRP" and the boot hangs. Nasty piece of
work.
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