Anyone know anything about this latest little nasty worm thing called 'FWD:Joke'Ithink it sounds like love bug 2

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Answers

It is indeed. There's a patch on the McAfee site that can be downloaded automatically (assuming you're running McAfees Anti Virus stuff), that hopefully will sort it. But don't on any account open any attachments that look a bit iffy.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Additional variants of the virus are now being seen - eg Very Funny or Joke in the subject line

Please refrain from opening any attachments that have the following naming convention .txt.vbs or .vbs eg Very Funny.vbs

Should you receive any attachments with this naming format please do NOT launch / detach / view the file

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

What happens to these people who make and send these virus's. Do theyever get caught and if so what is the penalty for reaping so mucg havoc? I think if they kill someones computer then they too should recieve the death penalty. I bet they get a few months inside, then come out and get a great job with the likes of Norton or Macafee. Bastards should be hung.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

The fbi are currently hunting down the source , i reckon who ever it was is in some sh1t .

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

I hear it was started by a student in the Phillipines...probably b*llocks, but that's the story going round.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Eddy?

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

The guy who created the Melissa virus was tracked down by the FBI and given a fairly light sentance (considering the ####'s of damage caused worldwide andin comparison to the sentence handed out to someone like Nick Leeson).
Channel 4 news commented last night that there were some lines of code in there ("I hate goto School") which suggested that the author was a kid (and a bloody genius kid at that).
Still nice to see "You're on Sky Sports" was a victim of the virus.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Whoever started it would have used a central PC - like at a University - and thought it is easy to track down which PC it was sent from it is difficult to pinpoint anyone in particular.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

VIRUS WARNING. > > > > > If you receive any sort of 'work' at all, whether via email, internet or simply handed to you by a colleague...DO NOT OPEN IT.

This has been circulating around our building for months and those who have been tempted to open it or even look at it have found that their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function properly. If you do encounter 'work' via email, then to purge the virus, send an email to your boss with the words 'I've had enough of your shit...I'm off down the pub'. The 'work' should automatically be forgotten by your brain and your career will now be successfully destroyed.

If you receive 'work' in paper-document form, simply lift the document and drag to your waste paper bin and deposit there. Put on your hat and coat and skip to the nearest bar with two friends and order three pints of beer.

After repeating this action 14 times, you will find that 'work' will no longer be of any relavance to you and that 'Scooby Doo' was the greatest children's cartoon ever.

Send this message to everyone in your mailbox. If you do not have anyone in your mailbox, then I'm afraid the 'work' virus has corrupted your life. Go out and get some friends.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2000