MS Worm

[Ulrich Plate]

Apologies all around, my computer managed to send a worm to large portions
of my address book, unfortunately including this and two other mailing lists
of more than a hundred people each.

The virus was in an attachment to a mail I received from a friend this
morning, and my scanner did in fact declare it virus-free. Well, that
particular virus scanner must have been hopelessly outdated, making me spend
the rest of the morning cleaning my PC. Apologies for putting you at risk
with this particularly malicious worm.

Most people will have done the wise thing and simply deleted my message, but
in case you have been contaminated, documentation and instructions for the
removal of the virus can be found here:

http://www.ipa.go.jp/security/topics/newvirus/magistrnew.html (Japanese)
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.39921 at mm.html
(English)

Again, apologies
Ulrich Plate