[NHCOLL-L:530] Re: Virus warning about e-mail to this group

[Peter Rauch]

You can read about this real worm at:

Linkname: Wscript.KakWorm
    http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html

Yes. It really was distributed with the message Gary mentions.
You can retrieve it from the nhcoll-l archives if you have any
doubts.

Peter

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Gerald Noonan wrote:
> 	On my computer I have Norton AntiVirus set to scan each incoming e-mail 
> for viruses. It notified me that an attachment to a message sent to this 
> group had a virus. The message header apparently read New Publication 
> --Murray's Museums Their History and Their Use. The Norton  alert notice 
> said that the virus was in attachment unk0000.unk to the above message and 
> that the virus was something called a WScript.kakWorm. I had Norton 
> antivirus delete the entire e-mail message and attachment so I can't 
> provide any more information. People might want to be very careful about 
> opening the attachment to anything that has a title similar to the one 
> given above.