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Here's a bug that could be more devastating than the "Love Bug".
Bon Apetit,
Norman
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<P><STRONG><FONT face=sans-serif,arial color=#333333 size=+1><SPAN>Locust Plague
Devastates Crops and Grape Vines in Australia</SPAN></FONT></STRONG><FONT
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<P>Sydney, May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Australian grain and grape<BR>growers across the
country are counting crop losses from one of<BR>the worst locust plagues in 50
years.
<P>Swarms of Australian Plague Locusts have eaten crops and<BR>pastures across
the country, from Western Australia to South<BR>Australia, New South Wales, and
Victoria states.<BR>``I can't recall a time when both sides of the continent
have<BR>been infested during the same season,'' said Graeme
Hamilton,<BR>director of the government-funded Australian Plague
Locust<BR>Commission.
<P>Locusts hit Australia, the world's No. 2 wheat and canola<BR>exporter, during
the 1930s, 1950s, and in the 1970s, leading to<BR>the formation of the Locust
Commission in 1974. The insects like<BR>warm, wet weather and will travel
hundreds of kilometers in a<BR>night to find suitable conditions.
<P>Australia's grain industry, worth an estimated A$6.7 billion<BR>(US$4
billion) during 1999-2000, accounts for about 15 percent of<BR>world exports,
according to the Grains Council of Australia.
<P>While Hamilton said the locusts had devastated individual<BR>farms, he said
Australia's exports would probably not be affected<BR>by the plague.
<P>Australia's monopoly wheat exporter, AWB Ltd., said it was<BR>too early to
comment on the damage, though it should be known by<BR>the end of the
month.<BR>``We have given the locust perfect conditions this
summer,''<BR>Hamilton said. ``Particularly along the east coast
during<BR>February, when we had 10 inches of rain along 700 kilometers''
<P>The insects are active from September to May. During this<BR>time, six
cyclones have crossed the Australian coastline, creating<BR>unusually wet
weather, ideal for the locust to feed and breed.
<P>Swarms have been so thick this season, some weather bureaus<BR>have mistaken
them for rain clouds.<BR>``Meteorologists have been looking at radar pictures
showing<BR>a halo of rain when there is no rain clouds. We've come to
the<BR>conclusion it's locusts flying several thousand feet up,''<BR>Hamilton
said.
<P>The locust plague could reduce production by about 4 percent.<BR>Still,
estimates are hard to gauge as the insects are currently<BR>eating the new
growth of crops planted during the southern<BR>hemisphere summer, when tonnages
are unknown.
<P>Adding to the difficulty of counting the cost is the locust's<BR>patchy
eating habits.<BR>``We have had reports of some farmers losing entire
crops,<BR>yet their neighbors are untouched,'' Hamilton said. ``They
are<BR>quite gregarious, eating out one paddock and leaving the
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Subject: [RT] First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
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F-SECURE WARNS OF A CUNNING NEW "MOTHER'S DAY" VERSION OF THE LOVELETTER
E-MAIL WORM
ESPOO, Finland, May 5th, 2000 - F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data
Fellows) [HEX: FSC], a leading provider of security for mobile, distributed
enterprises, is warning e-mail users of another new variant of the
VBS/LoveLetter e-mail worm. This new variant sends e-mails which appear to
be a confirmation of an electronic gift order. F-Secure Anti-Virus detects
and disinfects the worm with the latest update available from
www.F-Secure.com.
By midday (central European time) on Friday, five different versions of the
VBS/LoveLetter worm had been found in the wild. Several more are excepted to
appear over the coming weekend.
"The Mother's Day version of this worm is quite cunning", comments Mikko
Hypponen, Manager of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure Corporation. "The
e-mail appears to be a confirmation of an order for 'Mother's Day diamond
special', and the attached file mothersday.vbs is portrayed as if it were an
invoice. When users get such e-mails they assume there is some mistake and
will naturally open the attachment - infecting their computer. With only
eight days to go until Mother's Day, this attack is quite credible."
The worm arrives in an e-mail message attachment called
mothersday.vbs. On a default Windows system, the ".vbs" extension is not
visible. If the recipient opens the attachment, the worm will use
Microsoft Outlook (if installed) to send a message to everyone in any
address books (including global access books of the organization; these
typically contains hundreds or thousands of addresses). The message looks
like this:
From: Name-of-the-infected-user
To: Random-name-from-the-address-book
Subject: Mothers Day Order Confirmation
We have proceeded to charge your credit card for the amount of
$326.92 for the mothers day diamond special. We have attached
a detailed invoice to this email. Please print out the
attachment and keep it in a safe place.Thanks Again and Have a
Happy Mothers Day! mothersday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attachment: mothersday.vbs
As address books typically contain group addresses, the result of executing
the VBS/LoveLetter worm inside an organization is that the first infected
user sends the message to everybody in the organization. After this, other
users open the message and send the message again to everyone else. This
quickly overloads e-mail servers.
In addition, this worm deletes all INI and BAT files from all drives and
directories. This may leave the system in an unbootable state and might do
serious damage to network files.
This variant is detected as VBS/LoveLetter.E by F-Secure Anti-Virus. Like
the original version of the worm, VBS/LoveLetter.E is written in the
VBScript language.
The other known variants of the worm are known as VBS/LoveLetter.A, B, C and
D.
The A variant was the original LoveLetter worm.
The B variant has been modified in Lithuania, and the subject field of the
sent e-mail messages is "Susitikim shi vakara kavos puodukui...", which in
Lithuanian means "Let's meet this evening for a cup of coffee..."
The C variant has the subject field of "fwd: Joke" and the attachment is
called "Very Funny.vbs"
The D variant is almost identical to the original LoveLetter worm. It has
been modified slightly, probably to make it undetectable to some anti-virus
programs.
A technical description of the worm is available in the F-Secure virus
description database at: http://www.F-Secure.com/v-descs/love.htm
Sample pictures of e-mail messages generated by VBS/LoveLetter are available
in the F-Secure virus screenshots center at:
http://www.F-Secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation is a leading developer of centrally managed security
solutions for the mobile, distributed enterprise. The company offers a full
range of award-winning integrated anti-virus, file encryption, distributed
firewall and VPN solutions. F-Secure products and the underlying policy
management framework enable corporate IT departments as well as service
providers to deliver Security as a Service(tm). For the end-user, Security
as a Service is invisible, automatic, reliable, always-on, and up-to-date.
For the administrator, Security as a Service means policy-based management,
instant alerts, and centralized management of a widely-distributed user
base.
Founded in 1988, F-Secure is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange [HEX:
FSC]. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland with North American
headquarters in San Jose, California, as well as offices in Canada, China
(Hong Kong and Beijing), France, Germany, Japan, Sweden and the United
Kingdom. F-Secure is supported by a network of VARs and Distributors in over
90 countries around the globe.
For more information, and for status updates during the weekend, please
contact
USA:
F-Secure Inc.
Pirkka Palomaki, Director of Product Marketing
675 N. First Street, 5th Floor
San Jose, CA 95112
Tel. +1 408 218 2762
Fax +1 408 938 6701
e-mail Pirkka.Palomaki@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Finland:
F-Secure Corporation
Mr. Mikko Hypponen, Manager, Anti-Virus Research.
PL 24
FIN-02231 ESPOO
Tel +358 9 8599 0513
Fax +358 9 8599 0599
E-mail: Mikko.Hypponen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.F-Secure.com/
Note to Editors: Further technical information and a screenshot of the
virus is available at: http://www.F-Secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/
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