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Subject: virus warning
From: Doug Pichette (va7dp@home.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 20:19:39 EDT


I just received this in the email and Norton caught it.
I checked it out at Symantec and this is the information I got.
THIS IS A REAL VIRUS.
Doug


W32.Magistr.24876@mm is a virus that has email worm capability. It is also
                        network aware. It infects Windows Portable
Executable (PE) files, with the
                        exception of .dll system files, and sends email
messages to addresses that it
                        gathers from the Outlook/Outlook Express mail
folders (.dbx, .mbx), the sent
                        items file from Netscape, and Windows address books
(.wab), which are used
                        by mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and
Microsoft Outlook Express,.
                        The email message may have up to two attachments,
and it has a randomly
                        generated subject line and message body.

                        Also Known As: I-Worm.Magistr, PE_MAGISTR.A,
W32.Magistr@mm


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