New strain of Love-Bug virus - Read this!
Fresh strain of Love Bug virus is out
A new strain of the LoveBug virus is apparently worming its way into Switzerland and Russia, targeting bank account details and passwords.
The virus masquerades as a resume file called RESUME.TXT.VBS attached to an email. It purports to be from a Swiss Internet company looking for an Internet programmer. If the attached file is opened, the virus runs the Notepad word processor and displays the following text:
Knowledge Engineer, Zurich
Intelligente Agenten im Internet sammeln Informationen, erkluren
Sachverhalte im
Customer Service, navigieren im Web, beantworten Email Anfragen oder
verkaufen Produkte
Once active in the system, the virus downloads a password-stealing program called Hooker from the Net which then copies online banking information from the infected computer.
The Russia based virus specialists, Kapersky Labs, has issued warnings about the virus, and has intimated that password-stealer was placed on computers at Michegan State University and the National Institutes of Health. ®
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Scary stuff - this has been looked into by our IT dept, and is not a hoax...
Be aware.