That was part of the news item. It comes in various flavors, all of which
require the receiver to run (open?) an executable file with a name like
readme.exe or nimda.exe.
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At 05:27 PM 9/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Bernie Corrigan wrote:
>
>> The FBI made an announcement about this virus this afternoon and CNN made
it a
>> news item. Supposedly it is somewhat worse than the Red Worm.
>
>Can we avoid this virus by simply not
>opening "runable" attachments such
>as EXE's, COM's etc...?
>
>Scott
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