Theos-Talk Archives (March 2001 Message tt00068)

The solution is simple:

1) If at all possible, use a newsreader OTHER than Outlook (Pegasus
makes Outlook look sick, at least as far as email capabilities go, and
is free).

2) NEVER open ANY attachment unless you are expecting it in advance. If
you are very familiar with the way file associations work, known picture
formats might be OK, but note that often viruses use a picture format as
an intermediate extension, nakedgirl.jpg.gh or something like that,
where ".gh" is a (fictional) undocumented extension for a Windows
executable (there are a number of REAL undocumented extensions for
Windows executables; I just don't have the ones I know at hand, and
there are several which are STILL undocumented).

ramadoss@infohwy.com wrote:
> 
> The bug masquerades as a Macromedia Flash movie, using the subject line "Fw:
> Naked Wife." The e-mail message states that: "My wife never look like that! :-)
> Best Regards," and then adds the name of the sender.
> 
> Those who open the attachment, NakedWife.exe, view a window that reads
> "JibJab Loading." It then tries to delete all .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, .INI, and
> .LOG files in the WINDOWS and WINDOWS/SYSTEMS directories.
> 
> It also spreads via Microsoft Outlook, sending out
> copies to every e-mail address
> in an infected user's address book.