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I received three copies of it last night around 7:00 pm. Fortunately, I
don't use Outlook. THis is another reason to use Eudora! I also had to
wonder why someone would send me a "A great Shockwave flash movie" at my
VAX e-mail account. This is also a reason that I find it hard to justify
using Outlook of any flavor for district e-mail. Does OWA have a problem
with these Outlook viruses?
-Wes
wfelty@gte.net
At 09:10 AM 12/02/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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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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