Worm: I'm fixed & you NEED to know

May 1, 2001

I am SOOO sorry about the worm I've been passing out. (#!@!%!)

Please know that MS outlook has been automatically responding to ALL

email that I received (even the spammers-haha) with a comment that

says: Take a look to the attachment.

When you try to open the attachment, you will see a message that says:

" File data corrupt: probably due to bad data transmission or bad disk

access "

It is natural for you to try to open this attachment, because its

comes in as a REPLY to an innocent email that you sent out... looks

like a response . I got it from someone replying to an email that I

sent to a yahoogroups list. They were not TRYING to reply to me on

purpose. The reply is automatic.

Kicker: The worm does not kick in until you have to reboot Windows.

It was at least 1 wk between the time I received this worm, & the time

that I rebooted my computer, which then activated the worm. This is

why you need info. I did not know I had the worm until it activated

(Outlook sent out replies with worm attachments).

Its not hard to fix. Its the flounder time for researching for

someone (me) who is not technically smart. For instructions to

remove this worm, I used info from the following:

and

If you opened the attachment, you may wish to print this info & have

it handy... This seems to be the only recourse I can offer to

minimize damage... Perhaps if the person who sent the worm to me had

responded with ANY info, damage would have been less (?) Again, I am

truly very sorry. My McAffee didn't pick this up despite my updates

to the program. This must mean that I need to work to improve my

McAffee.

Trish

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