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| Subject: | BRHS Archive Computer is infected!!! |
| From: | "David Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@m...> |
| Date: | Thu, 4 May 2000 22:30:39 -0500 |
| Cc: | <BRHSlist@egroups.com> |
| Importance: | Normal |
| Reply-to: | <dave_lotz@e...> |
In a fleeting moment of stupidity, I opened an ILOVEYOU email this morning. I've been so trained to not open any executable file like .exe or .vbs. Unfortunately I didn't see in the attachment that the .txt file was actually a .txt.vbs, which is a Visual Basic script. I'm not sure why my McAfee didn't catch this, it must be a new virus. It replaced over 3,000 jpg files with 11k jpg.vbs files. Most of these files are backed-up, but at this time I'm not certain just how many I'll have to re-scan for the BRHS Archives. Luckily I was offline when I opened the file so I should not have sent it to anyone. But by the time I realized what was happening, it was too late. Goes to show how important backups are! Dumb Dave. |
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