ALERT Sircam virus runs amok

[POBrien]

Hi All,

I noticed a few postings lately about the affects of this virus.

I just received an email from my ISP.

Here it is...

Alert

This is a virus notification from Southwestern Bell/Pacific Bell/Nevada Bell Internet Services. Please read this message carefully.

A virus known as SirCam is affecting Internet users worldwide. The SirCam virus is transmitted through e-mail attachments and will likely come from someone you know. We recommend that you monitor your e-mail for unusual or unexpected messages. As a precaution, delete messages that begin "Hi! How are you?" and end "See you later. Thanks" and contain an attachment. The message also may appear in Spanish, beginning "Hola como estas?" and ending "Nos vemos pronto, gracias."

If your computer becomes infected, the virus will send messages to every e-mail address stored on your computer and attach your personal files to outgoing messages. We strongly recommend that you update your anti-virus software to help protect your computer from this virus.

For a complete description of this virus, please refer to the bulletin available at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-22.html.

[coolsights2000]

I back up all my user.dat and system.dat files also I run Msconfig and save the autoexec.pss config.sys system.pss and win.pss file that it generates so if something happens I can restore these in dos mode

What else should we save I don't keep or have any thing that important on my putter that I have to worry about saving........We mostly use it to surf the net........

also I am not using policies and I do have a emer start up disk ready

I am using windows 98 SE

I have figured out that even if the regisrty gets screwed up the other files on the putter are still there it is the registry that does not what to do with them ....... but if something changes a regular file(like a dll file) then you are really screwed

Thanks Mac!!!!!!!