If you had run teh attachment you are in deep trouble. See here for removal,
complicated but easy fix not available yet.
SIRCAM worm. Please take action immdtly.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
Also pass on the information to all people from whom you have got mails.
Thanks & Regards
Arijit Upadhyay
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael (michka) Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>; Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: some kind of virus?
> The cause of the virus is a web crawler. I suspect that they are pulling
> them off of the yahoo archive site.
>
> michka
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Everson" <everson@indigo.ie>
> To: <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:39 AM
> Subject: OT: some kind of virus?
>
>
> > I KNOW this isn't the forum for this, but for the last three days
> > I've been getting mail from all sorts of people I never heard of,
> > which contains some 170K attachment, and the following text:
> >
> > Hi! How are you?
> > I send you this file in order to have your advice
> > See you later. Thanks.
> >
> > And sometimes this text is in Spanish!
> >
> > I've never been beseiged like this before, and I was wondering if
> > there was something nasty going round.
> >
> > I suspect Sarasvati would appreciate it if you answered me personally
> > rather than to the list.
> >
> >
>
>
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