Pretty Park Virus is going around again.

July 25, 2000

The PrettyPark worm or virus seems be making the rounds again.

Someone in another group received it today, Tuesday, 25 July 2000

DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. This one is real.

DELETE IT if it comes to you.

Read below to find out how it causes problems.

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'Pretty Park' Virus Is Back, In The Wild

By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,

03 Mar 2000, 5:09 PM CST

Last year's Pretty Park virus is back in a new version and rapidly spreading

in the wild, according to Network Associates, which has identified the new

infection.

The virus arrives as an e-mail attachment named " prettypark.exe " and does not

alter or delete files, according to a report released by MSNBC. Instead, the

virus sends a copy of itself to everyone in the victim's e-mail address book

every 30 minutes, according to an alert posted on the Network Associates Web

site. This can cause an entire network to bog down.

Networks Associates says that the virus is spreading very rapidly and has

infected computers in a dozen corporate and government networks.

Pretty Park first appeared last year, and this new version has been given the

designation of " W32/Pretty.worm.unp. " However, according to Network

Associates spokesperson, Shall, the present manifestation is merely

last year's virus in uncompressed form.

The virus was first discovered in mid-February, but wasn't considered a

serious risk at that time. But now the virus is spreading rapidly, according

to published reports.

One of the characteristics of the virus is that it can infect Windows

platforms. Virulent e-mail messages arrive with the subject line

" C:Cool/ProgsPretty Park.exe. " Attached to the e-mail is a program with an

icon of , one of the cartoon characters from the TV series, " South Park. "

is what victims see on their PCs, but the program is working in the

background spamming everyone on the PC user's address book.

Victims are being tricked into opening the infected e-mail because it appears

to have been sent from a friend.

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And it continues ...

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