It's come into our system today, but we don't use MS Outlook and our
antivirus was up to date so we escaped. Company "upstairs" went to 9,000
msgs in a couple of hours before they shut down their mail. Jack
Anna virus rushes the Net
By Robert Lemos
Special to CNET News.com
February 12, 2001, 11:30 a.m. PT
update
A virus posing as a photo of
Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova spread aggressively on Monday, as major
security companies rushed to update their antivirus software to detect the
fast-spreading e-mail virus.
"Compared to the 'Love Bug', it's spreading twice as fast," said Alex
Shipp, antivirus technologist with British e-mail service MessageLabs. In the
five hours since MessageLabs detected the infection, its users have received
almost 2,900 copies of the infected e-mail sent from more than 290 different
domains.
Also known as VBS/SST, the virus initially poses as an
attachment--AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs--included in a message with one of three
similar subject lines: "Here you are ;-)," "here you have ;o)" and "here you go
;-)."