New Windows Worm on the Move

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The new pest is called Mimail.C, and it conforms to just about every convention of the mass-mailing virus rulebook.

The worm first appeared Friday morning and is spreading somewhat slowly at this point, although it has the potential to infect a large number of PCs

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(Am I the only one who, purely for reasons of grammar, would instantly delete this e-mail after reading just that first sentence?    Well, grammar plus the fact that I'm not a "lovely girl." (I'm merely lovely.  ) But I'd never even get far enough down to notice the attachment!)

[Gothick]

Thanks for that alert, Lovely One.  Agree that I would delete the entire mess on sight.  It boggles what's left of my mind that computer users STILL open random attachments like this.  I guess part of the problem is folks using email handling software that opens the attachments automatically--really not a good idea.

I was bemused by the widget "bh" in that text.  Was this supposed to be an inversion of "hb," a revolting shorthand for "husband" that's acquired a deplorably widespread currency on the Internet?

G.

[Blue_Whale_Barfly]

I'm a Mac user.  Can you please explain what a virus is?