Mon Jul 23 11:12:02 PDT 2001 — “SirCam” Virus outbreak. Yet another nasty virus is in the wild that spreads itself via MS Outlook & Outlook Express. The virus may do a number of very bad things to an infected system, including emailing random documents to every one in your address book, using up all of the free space on your hard disk, or possibly even deleting all of your files. There is more information on this virus at news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6625286.html
We are filtering the SirCam virus based on a number of unique strings that always appear in an infected email. -Kelsey