Volume 1: Number 38
Fri, 22 Oct 1999
In this issue:
Re: HIStalk V1 #31
Another Virus Alert
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:58:24 -1000
From: "Leslie Lewis" <lewisl001@hawaii.rr.com>
To: <HIStalk@InternetCrusade.com>
Subject: Re: HIStalk V1 #31
Still waiting for listing of agents with their code numbers (to find who
buyers' agents were in sold transactions. I tried to make my own but ran
into duplicates. Different agents had the same numbers.
Please send me a list or make available one way or another asap. Where are
these numbers derived from. Are they assigned by HIS or are they board
member numbers?
Leslie Lewis
mailto:lewisl001@hawaii.rr.com
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:01:48 -1000
From: "HIStalk Administrator" <HIStalk-Admin@InternetCrusade.com>
To: "HIStalk" <HIStalk@InternetCrusade.com>
Subject: Another Virus Alert
The following alert was e-mailed to me from McAfee Virus Alert. Take note
that this attachment is a DOC file.
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Two variants of the Melissa virus, Melissa.u and Melissa.v, are being
reported in numerous locations. Both viruses arrive in the form of an
infected Word document attached to email. When the infected document is
opened, the virus infects Word's global template, Normal.dot. Once the
global template is infected, all future Word documents will be infected.
Because these variants spread rapidly via email, delete data, and are being
widely reported, AVERT Labs has placed both viruses on the AVERT Watch List
with an initial risk asessment of medium.
To identify infected emails, look at the subject line and body text of the
message. The subject line for an email infected with Melissa.u is "pictures"
and the body tag is "what's up?". The subject line for an email infected
with Melissa.v is "My Pictures" and the body tag is blank. If you receive an
email with either of these two subject lines, do not open the attachment.
Delete the email immediately!
Both variants delete data and spread very rapidly.
Melissa.U invokes a MAPI email client and sends itself to the first four
email addresses in your Address Book (including distribution lists). It then
attempts to render your system inoperable by deleting the following system
files: c:\io.sys, d:\command.com, d:\io.sys, c:\Ntdetect.com,
c:\Suhdlog.dat, and d:\Suhdlog.dat
Melissa.v invokes a MAPI client and sends itself to the first forty
addresses in your Address Book. It then attempts to delete files and
directories in the root of mapped drives with the following letters: M, N,
O, P, Q, S, F, I, X, Z, H, and L.
An infection of either variant within an organization can cause the loss of
numerous files due to the viruses' actions on mapped drives.
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