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Current Updates Posted Date: Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 2:16
Subject: virus alert: Explore.zip.
EXPLORE.ZIP VIRUS:
Explore.Zip has the speed of Melissa and the destruction capability of Chernobyl.
If an e-mail message is received with a zipped file attachment zipped_files.exe the message should be deleted.
Organisations attacked will have files damaged or destroyed.
If the attachment is opened, the virus will destroy any file including Word, Excel and Powerpoint as well as files with the extension .h, .c, .cpp and .asm on the hard drive.
The infected machine should be taken off the network immediately because the Worm also searches the mapped drives within the network for Windows Installations to modify the initialisation and registry files.
ExploreZip appears to begin by attacking Microsoft based software only.
Links Here are links to Anti-Virus Software and hopefully some temporary protection from invasion.
