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Greetings from The VACM Team,

In this issue:
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- Valentine Card email worm spreading fast!

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* The Bottom Line...
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W32.Valcard is a Mass Mailer that will send itself to everyone in your
address book. It even signs your name to the virus emails it sends out!
Actually, it uses the registered name of the computer your using to sign
the email.

W32.Valcard is an email with an attachment called "ValentineCard.exe".

As we have advised in the past, make sure that your system is not set to
hide file extensions, because, if it is, you will not see the ".EXE" on
the end of the filename and may be tempted to double-click on the
attachment.

If you do run the attachment, not only will Valcard mail itself to all
your contacts, signed by you, but it will also change your system such
that it ensures it will run itself the next time you boot your system.

Valcard also creates and runs a file called "Evil.jpg".

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* What You Should Do...
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1. Get the latest virus definitions for your antivirus software
and do a full system scan.

2. If you haven't already, follow our "HowTo" article on disabling the
hiding of file extensions at

HowTo: Disable Hiding Of File Extensions

3. Consider hardening your system against email viruses by following
the instructions in all 4 of our "HowTo" articles at

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Best Regards,
Marc Deschenes, VACM Editor
The VACM Project at
Automated PC Solutions

*** Be sure to check out the appendix at the end of this alert
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******** APPENDIX - Handy How-To Tips **********

* How To Boot into Safe Mode

Shut the computer down so that the power is off.

Turn the computer on, wait 1 second and begin pressing the F8 key
on the keyboard, once every second repeatedly. Do this until
the Windows Startup Menu appears. If you get a keyboard
error, press F1 to resume and then continue pressing the
F8 key once every second, or your PC may tell you to press another key for BIOS setup.

Select Safe Mode from the Windows Startup Menu, then press
the Enter key on the keyboard.

Windows will then boot into Safe Mode.
NOTE: This may take longer than a normal boot.

At the end of the boot process a dialog box will appear
informing you that Windows is in Safe Mode. Click OK on this dialog box.

Windows is now in Safe Mode.

If you miss hitting the F8 at the right time, Windows will boot
normally and you will not see the "Safe Mode" message. In this
case, start from the top of these instructions until you get the
boot menu screen where you can choose "Safe Mode". This can be
a little tricky the first time you do it.

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