DATE:  02/12/01 

TO:  FIU Community 

FROM:  Information Resource Management 

Subject:  New Computer Virus 

IRM received word Monday afternoon that a new virus is spreading rapidly via E-mail.
It is an Internet worm called VBS/SST, a.k.a. the "Anna Kournikova" virus (because it has
an attachment with a picture of the tennis star). 

While not very destructive to individual computers, it has the ability to replicate itself by 
sending itself to all addressees in an infected user's Windows E-mail address book. When 
this happens too many times at a site, it overloads and crashes the site's E-mail servers. 

The most common signs of the virus are as follows: 

Subject: Here you have, ;o 

    or   Here you go: -- 

Body: 

Hi: 
Check This! 

Attachment: Anna Kourikova.jpg.vbs 

If you receive an E-mail message with any of the above characteristics,
DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT! DELETE THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY! 

McAffee customers who have updated their virus definitions should be inoculated 
against " Anna Kournikova." Norton Anti Virus users are advised to update their
definitions to obtain similar protection..


If you have already become infected with this virus, please contact the 
IRM Support Center at 305-348-2284 for removal instructions. 

Further technical information about this virus is available at: 

and

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.sst@mm.html