[Esd-l] Heads up: Better poison "Christmas.exe"

[Brett Glass]

>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:00:40 -0800
>From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari at OLTECO.com>
>
>To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
>
>
>        Needless to say... DO NOT OPEN or highlight in Outlook UNLESS
>        Outlook is in "safe" mode...
>
>
>December 19, 2001
>Filed at 1:58 p.m. ET
>
>Computer Virus Could Render a Very Unhappy New Year
>
>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A newly discovered computer worm, sent under guise of a holiday greeting, has popped up in the United States and Europe and, if activated, could destroy personal computers, experts said on Wednesday.
>
>The Reeezak worm enters a computer as an e-mail message in Microsoft Corp. Outlook with a subject line ``Happy New Year'' and an attachment -- ``Christmas.exe'' -- which a recipient may think is a Christmas card.
>
>The worm can disable selective keys on the infected computer's keyboard and delete all the files found in the Windows System Directory, rendering the computer inoperable.
>
>
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
> You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus.
>                                                          -- Mark Twain.
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
>
>       OLTECO                    Ari Ollikainen
>       P.O. BOX 20088            Networking Architecture and Technology
>       Stanford, CA              Ari at OLTECO.com
>       94309-0088                415.517.3519