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There is a new virus making the rounds. It has an attachment named
creative.exe and a subject line that references a Shockwave flash movie. Do
NOT open any message with these characteristics and do NOT open the
attachment.
This virus attacked the central email site around 6:00 p.m. today. We now
have it fairly well contained so far as the central site is concerned.
However, email servers at individual schools that don't have current virus
protection running could be at risk, as can individual computers that may
receive this message via one of the school servers.
Some of the district network functions may be shut down over the weekend as
we continue to work on this situation. We may also keep them shut down first
thing Monday morning to prevent any further spread of this virus.
The virus is one of those which uses the Outlook global address list to send
itself to other computers. It also moves JPEG and ZIP files to the root
directory and renames them. There are also indications that it may place
itself in the startup directory, so that it would be activated every time
Windows comes up.
Thanks,
Judy
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Judy McNamee
Manager, Computer Operations
Seattle Public Schools
Voice: 206-252-0306
Fax: 206-252-0301
jmcnamee@seattleschools.org
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