Subject: Virus Warning message!

From: Chih-Wen Cheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:33:04 +0800

Dear Friends,

Recently there are many mail viruses spreading around the net community. Like the previous warned "Very Funny.vbs" and a mail subjected as “Here you have, ;o)” with an attachment file named "AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs". Basically, they will scan through your email address books and span the mail itself to all the addresses in your address books. By looking into the script that the "Very Funny.vbs" will also replace all of your JPG, MP3 and other files in the system with the script named like "*.jpg.vbs" etc but AnnaKournikova on the other hand doesn't do that. So if you accidentally double click the affected file mostly named with *.*.vbs like *.jpg.vbs then it will run the script and infect your system again.

If you were unfortunately infected with above described viruses, the method to clean your system is quite simple without a need of any virus scanning software. I know that even some of them cannot clean the system totally. You can do it by hands easily. Please shutting down all programs and run the Find File to search any files with the extension “*.*.vbs” without the quotes and delete all those files. Furthermore search the “*.vbs” for any missing targets and judge yourself that do you have any particular installed program using the VB scripts, most likely is no, then kill all those files as well. Of cause, you can always back them up into some other devices first. In your mails please delete all the mails attached with file named "*.vbs".

The Windows should run normally without any help of VB scripts. 

Anyway, the reason for this kind of virus becoming popular and easy to write is because Microsoft's making the Visual Basic Script Language as almost like the system language of Windows system and without any prevention.

To prevent this kind of virus is quite simple. Systems like UNIX and LINUX without VB engine is of course immune from the virus attack. If you were like me as a PC user that most of us is running Windows then you should pay attention not to open your mail attachment with the file name ended with *.*.vbs like *.jpg.vbs. The common symptoms are that the virus mail is sending from one of your known friends but without signature.

The thumb rules are to read the mail cautiously if 

1.        There is no ending signature in the mail but with some attachments

2.       Don’t execute or open any attachment ended with *.vbs unless you know what the script is all about.

3.       File ended with like *.jpg.vbs is almost can be recognized as the virus file.

Don't blame your friends for sending the virus because he/she is also the victim. Please spread this message to you friends to help stopping the iterating of this kind of virus.
 
My best regards,

C.W.

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Chih-Wen Cheng, Ph.D. 

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