The same thing happened to me. I was able to destroy using www.mcafee.com clinic. They have the latest detection and removal utility for this virus. Regards -----Original Message----- From: John Allen <john.al...@rdel.co.uk> To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:58 AM Subject: VIRUS WARNING RE: R&TTE Directive - Transitional periods
> >Hi Folks > >This is just to warn you that an automatic reply to my posting last night >on the above subject resulting in me - and possibly others - being sent a >new virus! > >The message source address was 'david.cl...@spke.com' > >Do not open any self-extracting ZIP messages attached to emails from this >address!! > >Luckily it was caught by our corporate firewall, but I then received the >following message from the people administering the firewall. Their message >is given below for your information. > >Regards > >John Allen > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >--------------------------- > >Hi, John. > >The mail sent to you has been confirmed as a virus by Sophos. It's known >as >"explorezip-b" By the looks of it, the infection results are similar to >many others - you run what looks like a self-unzipping file, and the pc is >infected, sending the virus to many others - via the local address book, >and >in response to each received mail thereafter. > >Steve > >Steve Lewis >IT Executive >Racal Defence Electronics >Crawley >West Sussex >UK > >--------- >This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. >To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org >with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the >quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, >jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or >roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
