It can be destructive but apparently it's easy to stop it before it does that. That and the files it deletes are mostly images and sounds. I believe it needs to get the downloaded win-bugsfix.exe file and that server/source is unreachable. It's bad as it represents another possble way to compromize MS based systems that are ubiquious. To any other system or a tightend MS one it's noise. Well read up on it as it takes advantage of all the cute little widgets of IE5.0 namely instant messaging, Chat and Active-x controls. Once on the system it uses the outlook/outlookexpress addressbook to send itself to friends and contacts. so if it get to insystem in the average company within minutes every one there has it and it will cascade. If you don't have IE 5.0 or outlook (office87/98 or 2000) your safer. Even when you install IE4.0/sp1 you can kill off some of the toys and make it much harder to infect. The problem is not so much crappy MS as its peoples affliction for toys and not tools. That and W95/98 are very bad for security and win2000 and NT run close if not set up right. W9x effectively has no security and if the user is SHARING folders/files on the local net and using a modem to access the internet that system makes a fine proxy. If you admin uses some sense and takes advantage of even w9x security and policy stuff you can be far more resistant to much of the junk. Allison -----Original Message----- From: Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: RE: Watch for "ILOVEYOU" loveletter.VBS bug It's certainly spreading fast, I've already received three corrupt messages. Two of them came from other list servers (not this one) that I belong to and one came from a friend. Fortunately, I don't think this one is too distructive... Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>