[MR] Very Nasty Virus Alert (Goner)

[KilrRabbit at aol.com]

I'm sorry to post on this subject but this virus is very real - My company's internal mail server has been infected by it and it has infected many of the computers as well. Please be careful and delete anything that looks even remotely like a virus. The subject was Hi for the messages we got.
 Victoria

In a message dated Tue, 4 Dec 2001  4:28:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Rupert Gaddy" <rgaddy at bellsouth.net> writes:

> 
> I never post virus warnings, but our IT folks are really upset by this one
> called GONER, because among other things it destroys your virus protection
> system files on your computer as well as terminally damaging the Windows OS,
> maybe even loosing all your data on the PC.
> 
> Once you are infected it grabs your mail program and mails itself to
> everyone on your address book (in my case including this group).
> 
> Watch out for this one, it also spreads by IRC
> 
> It seems to always have a ".scr" extension, so if you get anything with that
> extension I suggest you NOT open it but delete it ASAP
> 
> Details at this link:
> 
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.a@mm.html
> 
> 
> Like I said, I NEVER post virus warnings but this one has already infected
> the college system and caused chaos!
> 
> Rupert the Persistent
> 
> 
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