Virus warning!

[Mel Culbreath]

I received this message from my computer club today and thought I better pass it along.

Mel
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This hit the newswires yesterday.

"Win32.All3gro.A" is a malicious worm merely posing as an antivirus program.

The worm doesn't completely remove the viruses it claims to eradicate--the highly infectious and malicious SirCam, Badtrans and PrettyPark--and depending on the day of the week it tries to delete documents or system files, while e-mailing itself to recipients on a computer's address book.

It is a malicious attempt with social engineering to try to fool people into downloading it, according to Symantec.

Win32.All3gro.A is considered a low threat right now but could mushroom overnight.

The worm arrives with a subject line that says "New antivirus tool" and an attachment labeled "Antivirus.exe."

Don't be fooled into executing it.
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Mel Culbreath on 25 August 2001 at 05:01 PM.]</p></FONT>