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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44673)	12/4/2001 5:36:43 PM
From: davidcarrsmith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Just saw this on Drudge Email virus 'worse than lovebug' Anti-virus company MessageLabs says the Goner computer virus is spreading almost as fast as the lovebug virus. The company's anti-virus technologist, Alex Shipp, said the company saw 32,500 copies of the email screensaver stopped around the world. The email causes disruption through Microsoft Outlook and has a message which reads: "When I saw this screensaver I thought of you." Alex Shipp said the first copy they saw was from the US but added it may have originated in Europe. He said: "We have seen it coming from lots of companies in the UK and a lot of big ones have been badly affected." He said the cost to affected companies will be big because the email removes anti-virus software which will have to be replaced. Mr Shipp added the virus got a hold before software picked it up. He said: "It will be really big for the rest of today and perhaps for tomorrow, and then it will be over." Story filed: 20:38 Tuesday 4th December 2001

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44673)	12/4/2001 6:49:28 PM
From: BirdDog	Respond to of 65232

anyone else seeing viruses? I gotta admit. I never got any virus attempt in 11 years online. Till now...got one last year... four, possibly five in the past 6 months. The fifth was definitely an autosend from someone I did business with. All attempts failed. Deleted them all without opening the attachment. And BTW: I got a FREE virus software. Seems to work as good as any of them. It's called AVG. BirdDog

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44673)	12/4/2001 10:03:27 PM
From: synchro_fan	Respond to of 65232

yes we had the same virus here and they had to reboot the mail server. it was a nasty. even when you deleted them, the message just came back. did not see or hear anything on the radio or news about this.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44673)	12/4/2001 10:17:51 PM
From: Ex-INTCfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

JW, I have been deluged with viruses for the past few months. The latest one is W95/Badtrans.B -- I get several of these attempts a day. Before that is was Sircam, and for the first few days of that I was getting at least 50 per day. Our ISP scans, and I do virus scans every day and updates 3 or 4 times per week, so I haven't had any problem. One of my clients, a very recognizable name, can't receive email today because they have some sort of virus (not anything I sent them, I can assure you). What virus did you guys get? I think they should hang people who invent these things by their sexual organs (unless they enjoy that sort of thing). Ex-INTCfan