smallspace opened this issue on Feb 12, 2001 ยท 10 posts
Fox-Mulder posted Mon, 12 February 2001 at 2:08 PM
Attached Link: http://msnbc.com/news/529834.asp
THE VIRUS TEMPTS potential victims by posing as a picture of Kournikova, an Internet heartthrob. It arrives with the Subject line: Here you have, ;o). The message body reads Hi: Check this! and it arrives with an attachment named AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs. This one will be big, said Alex Shipp, an engineer at MessageLabs Inc. Within a couple of hours, Shipps company had detected nearly 4,500 copies of it, and detection rates are growing exponentially. Compared with the LoveBug, it took twice as many hours for LoveBug to reach that level.