Kournikova Virus

[RoadRunner]

Did anybody get the Kournikova virus?

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/13/anna.worm/index.html
A new Internet virus that masquerades as an image of a sexy Russian tennis star has spread through the United States and Europe, but much of Asia seems to have dodged the infection.

It could be the biggest so-called worm since last year's "Love Bug" or "Love Letter" virus, which infected some 15 million computers and sent servers crashing around the world.

The "Anna Kournikova" virus infected computers in the United States late Monday and struck European businesses early the following day, computer security experts said Tuesday.

[jamesglewisf]

I received this one by email, but didn't get infected. I'll tell the story later. It's pretty funny.

[JamesUS]

I never seem to get any email viruses - as a matter of fact I've never had a virus at all. And I send/receive aroudn 50 mails a day so I would expect to have got a virus or two by now :p

I know one person who got the LoveBug and actually opened it and let it affect their computer.

[Flea]

We were lucky to get an early warning about the Kournikova Virus. I guess thats one advantage of living isolated in Australia. Of cause were not so isolated now with the WWW but they seem to target other countries first.

[RoadRunner]

Here is a good site for learning about virus hoaxes:

http://www.vmyths.com/