Anyone heard of the "i love you" virus??

@bert wrote:

Mr Incubus is correct in what he says about Hotmail……

20.12.2004
Trend Micro to Provide Real-time Antivirus Scanning for MSN Hotmail Customers

Award-winning Technology from a Global Antivirus Market Leader Helps Enhance Security for 187 Million Email Accounts

Marlow, UK – December 20, 2004 – Trend Micro, Inc. (TSE: 4704, NASDAQ: TMIC), a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, today announced an agreement with MSN to provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection for the MSN Hotmail Web-based service’s 187 million email accounts with Trend Micro’s award-winning technology. Customers of Microsoft’s web-based email service will receive automatic protection anytime they send and receive email attachments via Trend Micro’s scanning and detection services for a safer Internet experience.

“MSN is focused on providing a safer online experience for consumers, and we continue to make investments in this area. We’re pleased to work with Trend Micro, with its deep antivirus expertise, to expand the email protection of our Hotmail customers,” said Phil Holden, director of MSN Communication Services at Microsoft Corp. “Today MSN Hotmail is the only free global email service that provides antivirus scanning and cleaning for its customers. We see this offering as important in helping protect our Hotmail customers while also guarding members of the overall Hotmail community and the friends and family they email.”

Trend Micro’s antivirus technology will help protect MSN Hotmail email attachments by scanning in real-time for the latest viruses, Trojans, and worms.

It is your method of passing this on to the less well informed that concerns me. Why the bad attitude or is it as Rainnyroos says and you post here in between squeezing spots? :lol:

Bert Crony :wink:

Trust me trend micro recognise the generic fingerprint of the I-LOVE-YOU worm. And they dont allow .vbs files to be attached

@morticia wrote:

Okay, bear with me here people…………..

But, could it just be that Rainny opened an e-mail that had the virus but Hotmail had quarantined it and a message came up telling her that ??

It’s just a thought eh ???

No she said she opened an attachment and her Av client alerted her.

@rainbowbrite wrote:

Oh bugger me!!! :shock: :shock:

Warning to other JC users….do not open your mail if it says “I love you”

I have just recieved an email, was from a JC user, sent me a bleedin virus :shock:

Said “i love you”

I have McAfee, i have my fingers crossed it will save me…says there is no known cure.

How can i find out if my comp is in self destruct mode now??

Oh and can i say Thanks!!! To the JC user involved for passing it on

Most kind. :x :x :x

Morty Hotmail blocks the malicious content and deletes it. It does’nt even give you the ‘we warned you are you still willing to download’ Option because it is blocked before it even gets to the Servers.

@superanubistype wrote:

Morty Hotmail blocks the malicious content and deletes it. It does’nt even give you the ‘we warned you are you still willing to download’ Option because it is blocked before it even gets to the Servers.

Okay SuperA. Thanks.

Perhaps it could have been a fake or something. People just panic when they see the word “virus”

@bert wrote:

btw Morty I LOVE YOU :wink:

Awww DirtyBerty what’s the matter with you ??? You drunk again ??? :D