Here is the BBC story on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_736000/736080.stm
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> Hi all,
>
> we have been hit by a new virii, the email subject title is
> ILOVEYOU, it has
> caused some problems in Dell Australia, we had to filter the
> email to trash that
> has this title.
> what we have found about this attack is it replicates using
> outlook addressbook
> (How usless is I.S department allowing to use a program that has
> had so many
> virial attacks that replicates by grabbing addresses in the address book)
> also it opens IE and attaches to a web site and downloads a file.
> todate we do
> not
> know what the file does. I have been informed that Norton is developing an
> antivirus update and it should be ready by approx 2am.
>
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