On May 4, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
It's an email worm that takes advantage of MS
Active-x controls.
This is a wide spreading fast mover and packs a payload.
Locally several companies have reported it and it was only launched
less than a day ago.
Sure enough, got this on my mail server this morning:
May 4 11:46:16 srv1 sendmail[4958]: LAB04956:
usgate.e-mail.com.: SMTP DATA-2 protocol
error: 570 Rejected.Potential ILOVEYOU virus.
Why do people use crappy software like that? If I hear one more
idiot say "but I NEEEEEEEEEEEED it!" in reference to micro$lop I'm
going to go postal.
-Dave McGuire