Naked J-Lo. (Virus Notes).Sophos, has wamed users about a potentially destructive now virus which poses as a nude picture of Latino lovely Jennifer Lopez. Ironically appearing on the same day that the annual 'rear of the year' winners were announced, the worm worm, common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, or the flatworms, are the most primitive; they are generally small and flat-bodied and include the free-living planarians (of , which appears to have been written in Algeria, arrives in an email with the subject line "Where are you?" The message body reads "This is my pic is the beach" and has an attached file called JENNIFERLOPEZ_NAKED.JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG .VBS See VBScript. . If users open the attached file the virus forwards itself to everyone in their address book, potentially creating a vast amount of email in the style of the Love Bug A famous virus that arrived as an e-mail attachment using the "double extension trick." The file name was "I LOVE YOU.TXT.vbs." The .vbs extension slipped by users who thought it was a safe text (.TXT) file. or Kournikova worms. It then overwrites music and graphic files on your hard disk. Finally, the virus launches the highly destructive Chernobyl (also known as CIH CIH Chartered Institute of Housing (UK) CIH Certified Industrial Hygienist (ABIH) CIH Constant Image Height CIH Camshaft in Head (engine) CIH Chen Ing-Hau ) virus which is capable of totally paralysing a computer, requiring a hardware fix. As yet, Sophos has not received any reports of this worm, but are nonetheless encouraging users to be vigilant Read more about the Jennifer Lopez virus (also known as VBS/Lovelet-CM) and download protection against it from: http://www.sophos.ccm/virusinfo/analyses/vbsloveletcm.html |
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