Re: off list virus question

["Ferreira" pf1002912@xxxxxxxx]

This virus is not a hoax!!

I received a the same email the other day--apparently from a company in MA
that I sometimes do business with. The attached file appeared to be an MS
Word file (or at least it had a .doc extension). Thinking (a) that this was
an attachment from a known source; and (b) that it was not an exe file, I
opened it.

Disaster struck! My Norton Utilities (a few month old version) came on the
screen and said something like "Configuration file corrupted". My computer
locked-up; and when I rebooted I found that my directory structure had been
corrupted beyond repair.

Don't take this thing lightly. (I have now received about twenty copies of
this thing. They keep pouring in.)

Phil Ferreira
Dept. of Philosophy
Kutztown University
ferreira@xxxxxxxx ferreira@xxxxxxxx


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Troop" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: off list virus question


> to all the virus fanatics out there, may I ask one question?
>
> Lately I have received several messages which say:
>
> "Hi! How are you=3F
>
> I send you this file in order to have your advice"
>
> and contain some sort of binary. Is this a commonly
> known virus, or hoax? I have tried to research it with
> no luck so far.
>
>