**Virus Alert: HA, HA, HA (W95.hybris.gen) ALERT **
If you receive an email titled "HA, HA, HA" which contains the following text -
"Today, Snow White was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snow White. When they go out work at morning, they promised a *huge* surprise. Snow White was anxious. Suddenly, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter..."
This has an attachment - "midgets.scr" - do NOT open this as it
contains the W95.HYBRIS.GEN virus which is basically
a "worm". This will attach itself to all outbound email. The email
attachment will have a random name but the filename extension is either EXE or
SCR).
The worm attempts to connect to the newsgroup alt.comp.virus. After it
connects successfully, the worm uploads its own plug-ins in an encrypted form to
this newsgroup.