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Subject:Re: fwd: ("My Party" E-Mail Virus Warning)
From:developtrust
Date:Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:45:20 -0800

I got the message also and my Norton program caught it when I tried to open
up the files.

William Polowniak
1989 Vanagon GL
1988 Mercedes 300 SE

folks, this aint a hoax, its a real virus, it recieved it twice tonite and
deleted it ..

chris

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Do NOT open e-mails with the subject line: "New photos from my party!"

The My Party E-Mail virus looks like a harmless URL, but the victim clicking
on it will infect his or her machine with the My Party virus, which then
mails itself out to the list of addresses in the victim's Microsoft Outlook
database. That could potentially cause congestion in corporate e-mail
servers.

The My Party virus doesn't appear to carry any other dangerous payload, such
as one that deletes files, though antivirus tool vendors TruSecure and
Symantec have determined that there is a Trojan horse in the virus. The
Trojan horse sends e-mail about the spread of the My Party virus to a
particular e-mail address, napster@gala.net <mailto:napster@gala.net> .

What to Watch For
The virus arrives with the subject line "New photos from my party!" The body
of the message says "Hello! My party...It was absolutely amazing! I have
attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of
my photos! Thanks!"

If you receive e-mails with the above subject line or attachment,
immediately
DELETE them from your Inbox and Deleted Items folder.

In an effort to make sure that this virus does not infiltrate our network,
the Help Desk is sending out this reminder to ensure everyone has updated
their virus definitions.

This update will affect the following:
* NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000
* NAV 4.0, 5.0, 2000 for Win9x
* NAV 4.0, 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT
* NAV 6.0 & 7.0 Corporate Edition