Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:30:10AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote:
> 
> > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS
> > Delete, Don't run!
> > 
> 
> Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued
> by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright thing to do!

Perhaps he didn't send it.  Pretty park sends itself.

> If anyone inadvertanly ran this program on a windoze box, check:
> 
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html

Which also explains that the program mails itself:

    Once the worm program is executed, it tries to email itself
    automatically every 30 minutes (or 30 minutes after it is loaded)
    to email addresses registered in your Internet address book.

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