18 May 2004

Be Sure to Update your Virus Definitions – New Worm Found Today

If you receive an e-mail message with the following subjects, you don’t want to open it or any attachments -- the w32.lovgate.w@mm worm was discovered today, and is spreading rapidly. You might want to update your virus definitions to stop the spread of this worm.

The subject is one of the following:
test
hi
hello
Mail Delivery System
Mail Transaction Failed
Server Report
Status
Error

The message is one of the following:
pass
Mail failed. For further assistance, please contact!
The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.
It's the long-awaited film version of the Broadway hit. The message sent as a binary attachment.

The attachment is one of the following:
document
readme
doc
text
file
data
test
message
body

with one of the following as the extension:
.bat
.cmd
.exe
.pif
.scr