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Virus Alert - Actual



Greetings;

Saturday I received a Virus Alert from a friend at UKANS.EDU. Earlier
today I received TWO copies of the virus bearing message. I received the
English language version.  Deleted the message WITHOUT opening the
attachment, then ran my anti-virus software just to be sure. Be
alert!!!!

The Warning ------

In the past twenty-four hours, I've received eight messages containing
the W32.Sircam.Worm@mm worm. These messages have come from North and
South America, Europe and East Asia, so the distribution appears to be
quite extensive.

All of the messages have contained either "Te mando este archivo
para que me des tu punto de vista" or "I send you this file in order to
have your advice," and the files have been listed variously as 124Kb,
116Kb, etc. and all are identified as MIXED.

This worm also acts as a virus with a  potential of inflicting very
serious damage on your machine. Since it was first reported
on 17 July, you may not yet have updated your anti-virus software so
that it can recognize infected files.

Further information is available at

 http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html

Lynn

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