Doug:

This is a really nasty virus.  You should probably let people know if they
run the virus scan and do what it says...the virus will be worse.  It
actually starts working the way the programmer made it to when your ant
virus software tries to fix it.  Your whole system will be locked.  Even the
most up to date anti virus products cannot handle this virus correctly.
There are several websites with the correct fixes out there.  If you would
like, I can email you the sites.  I heard about this virus on a radio talk
show the day after I got one of your emails.  However, I just happened not
to open it because it looked suspicious.  I was lucky.


Thanks,

Lu

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio Association for Institutional Research (Ohio AIR)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Doug Easterling
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 10:59 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: VIRUS alert!!!

If  you receive an e-mail from me with the attachment Pretty.Park.exe, DON'T
open it!  Delete it immediately!!!  Opening that attachment allows the virus
to attach to your C drive, & from there it will e-mail itself (even though
you have no intention of sending this attachment on)  to everyone in your
address book.  It took our technical support staff over an hour to delete
the virus from the C drive on my computer.   I received an e-mail with this
attachment probably at least 2 mos ago & deleted it from my e-mail inbox
when I was informed that the attachment contained a virus.  However, I did
open it, & thus unleashed the demon.  Only this a.m. did the virus prevent
me from opening my e-mail.  I received a virus warning at that point, which
was the 1st time I was aware of it.  Even though I have a very recent
version of a virus scanner, the scanner somehow missed this one.

I'm told the virus won't damage any of my files.  I hope that's true for
you, too, if you were unfortunate enough to open this thing.  My sincere
apologies for sharing this mess with all of you.  It certainly wasn't my
intention.  It sure made for a great way to start off a Monday.

Doug Easterling, Director
Institutional Planning & Research
Sinclair Community College
444 W 3rd St
Dayton, OH 45402-1460
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