Hi.
Yesterday an email-virus entitled Emanuel was sent out over this list, and I am not
sure by who. It came in the form of Emanuel.exe, and had an icon resembling that of a
standalone flash projector file (pink diamond with a white multi-pointed asterisk-type
thing in the middle).
This virus appears to be a backorifice or netbus style virus, and adds something to a
system file that makes it so that *every* time you try to launch a program, it
launches "Wintask.exe", which is *not* an official task, despite the name. It puts a
green ICQ flower in your taskbar, and if you click it, a button pops up that says
"Nunca <bla bla> esta button". The <bla bla> is because I forget the word for "push"
in spanish, and I'm not about to open this program again -- It translates to "NEVER
PUSH THE BUTTON" -- and trust me, *don't*, this, i have found, is what activates the
virus.
I may have lost several weeks of work to this virus, and I advise you all to watch
out, as it was likely sent inadvertantly.
