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Major Virus Outbreak Alert From Trend Micro - VBS-LOVELETTER Hits Users Worldwide

MAIDENHEAD, England, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro (Nasdaq: TMIC), a leading provider of Internet content security, announced that protection for a new and quickly spreading VB Script "worm" type virus VBS-LOVELETTER is available now.

Trend Micro first detected this early this morning European time and had a solution available within 15 minutes. During a two-hour period several hundred phone calls were received from major European customers within Government, industry and trade including ISPs, infected with the new virus.

Trend Micro customers are strongly recommended to update their virus protection software with a new emergency virus update pattern update number 693 as follows:

1. Download pattern 693 from www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
2. Ensure that both in and outbound mail is scanned
3. Proceed with manual scan to clean up any affected mail servers, PCs
and file servers.

It is recommended that non-customers download an evaluation copy of
ScanMail plus pattern update 693 to install and clean mail/groupware servers.
Trend Micro is currently updating its free on-line scanning service,
HouseCall, at http://housecall.antivirus.com . Concerned users who are not
currently using Trend Micro software can take advantage of this free on-line
service to ensure that their systems are not infected. Trend Micro expects to
have HouseCall updated shortly.

About VBS-LOVELETTER
This computer worm, once executed will modify the registry and will drop files for it to spread. It replicates using Microsoft Outlook by sending an email with an attachment file "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs" to ALL email addresses listed in the address list. It will also propagate using mIRC by modifying the "script.ini". After connecting to a chat server using mIRC, the virus will initiate a dcc send to all the users in the current channel and send a copy of itself. It has also the capability to infect files with specific extensions How to reduce risk of infection

Trend Micro cautions users to be wary of opening email attachment with the reading "ILOVEYOU" with a phrase in the message body reading "kindly check the attached LOVE LETTER coming from me" - even if they recognise the name of the person sending the message, since this is how the virus is spread. Savvy users can create a rule in Outlook to delete emails with the mentioned text in the subject line or the body of the message.