Got a tip from a friend to the following site: http://www.mcafee.com/viruses/bubbleboy/

I've copied the pertinent info here. How much more damage could hackers throw into the pot with a tool like this? This person looks like they just wanted to prove they could do what others said couldn't be done, but with 50+ days left the ones who like to destroy for fun are going to have plenty of time to figure out how to use this to best (or worst) advantage. I've read twice now (Though the source quoted was likely the same) that there have been over 30,000 virus threats so far reported to various law inforcement, etc. folks from people writing viruses to make things worse on Jan 1. This new kind of worm isn't going to help the rest of us!!!

VBS/Bubbleboy Help Center VBS/Bubbleboy is a new Internet worm, discovered 11/08/99. AVERT has assigned it a LOW risk assessment; it has not appeared in the wild. VBS/Bubbleboy is a NEW type of worm: Unlike previous worms transmitted through email, this new type of worm does not come as an executable attachment. Instead, VBS/Bubbleboy infects PCs as soon as the transmitting email message is opened. This is a VERY significant innovation! Virus researchers have long assured the public that it is not possible to contract a virus or worm merely by opening and reading an email message. This is no longer true, and VBS/Bubbleboy marks the beginning of a more dangerous computing environment. VBS/Bubbleboy is transmitted through an email message with the subject heading "Bubbleboy is back!" It will ONLY infect PCs running Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook or Outlook Express. PCs using Outlook are infected upon opening the email message, while Outlook Express users may be infected by viewing the message with Outlook's "Preview Pane" feature! When the email is opened, the worm creates a file called UPDATE.HTA. The next time the PC is booted up, the worm sends itself embedded in an email to EVERY address in EVERY MS Outlook address book on the local system. It does this only once.

-- Titaina Baildon (tbaildon@yahoo.com), November 10, 1999

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Let's just hope post 2000 these pathetic little snot nose oxygen theives will have no electricity to wreak their lack-of-sexual-relations havoc, or that their PC or ISP will die, or they will be evicted from whatever cockroach infested hovel that serves as their abode because social security can't mail their handouts, or if we get really lucky they'll simply starve to death in their smelly cocoons when Dominos can't dispatch their sole source of sustenance.

(Yeah ok God help us all if the last one comes true!!)

-- JQ (onca@hotmail.com), November 11, 1999.