VBS.VBSWG2.X@mm is an encrypted VBScript worm that uses a known exploit to send itself to all recipients in an infected user's Microsoft Outlook address book. The email message has the following characteristics:
Subject: "Homepage"
Body:
Hi!
You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O)
Attachment: Homepage.HTML.vbs
The worm pretends to open a Web page upon execution. It randomly selects one of four pornographic Web pages and sends you there.
posted on May 10, 2001 04:01:36 PM
A quote from UK press "MessageLabs, an e-mail virus surveillance company that was intercepting up to 3,200 copies of the virus per hour, said that the virus had originated in Holland"
posted on May 10, 2001 06:04:33 PM
I received an email from MS with a link to an Outlook upgrade that will help to block this virus. You must have Office 2000 in order to use the block though.
