Love virus
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image and audio files, such as
JPEGs and MP3s, have been re
placed with more copies of the
virus, Smith said.
Avoiding the virus is actually
simple, he emphasized.
“The big thing is don’t open an
attachment from anybody," Smith
said. “The only way you will affect
your machine is bv double-click
ing on the ‘LOVELETTER’ attach
ment.”
The virus affects only comput
ers running Microsoft operating
systems; UNIX and Macintosh
systems are unaffected by the
virus, he said.
“A preponderance of (University
computer users) are running Win
dows 95,98 and NT,” Smith said.
The computing center had re
ceived at least 50 phone calls late
Thursday from University com
puter users who had contracted
the virus. Most of the problems in
volve problems with individual
machines, Smith said.
The Love Bug forced the Eugene
city government to cut the link be
tween the e-mail system and the
Internet. As many as 100 city em
ployees opened the "LOVELET
TER,” releasing the virus.
There is a procedure computer
users who have the virus can do to
rid their machines of the virus and
delete infected files, Smith said. It
can be.found on the McAfee Web
site, www.mcafee.com.
A Microsoft spokeswoman in
Portland said the company has
also received many calls. She
added, “Microsoft is working
closely with the anti-virus com
munity. The virus is still being in
vestigated.”
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation has opened a criminal in
vestigation of the virus attack.
The Love Bug is very similar to
the Melissa computer virus that
caused $80 million in damage in
the United States in March 1999.
“The protocols and the way the
code works is pretty well-de
signed," Smith said. But it is also
relatively easy to create a virus
such as the Love Bug. All the
knowledge required to create it is
available on the Internet, he said.
Smith predicts the virus will
continue to cause problems for as
long as people have it on their
computers. Experts have called
the Love Bug one of the fastest
spreading computer viruses the
world has ever seen.
The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
DDS move
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that someone had broken the
door’s window, which is on an
exit in the small office on the
EMU’s south side.
“It scared me so much that I did
n’t move,” she said. “All I saw was
a guy standing there in light col
ored pants. He stood there for
what seemed like a really long
time.”
Wise, who was driving Sunday,
said a passenger pulled a gun on
him and the DDS navigator when
he wanted to be let out. Wise said
the individual was extremely in
toxicated and barely able to walk.
“He got really angry and he fell
over a couple times,” he said.
Wise said he pulled over, let the
passenger out and called the office
of public safety. DDS records pas
sengers’ names and addresses, of
all riders and was able to provide
that information to OPS and Eu
gene Police.
“Just all in all, it’s been a pretty
bad week,” Wise said. “We’ve had
some pretty serious stuff happen.”
He said that situations in which
DDS employees have to break up
fights, ask people to leave the vans
or just deal with belligerently
drunk passengers are not uncom
mon.
“I don’t feel like a lot of the stu
dent body understands what we
do,” Wise said.
But Tuesday night’s incident
won’t stop the dispatcher who
was in the DDS office from work
ing with the shuttle service, but
she might bring some protection
to work the next time she has to
dispatch at night.
“She’s still working and she is
pretty clear about it,” Wise said. “I
admire her for this.”
Wise said DDS employees are
hoping to find a student group that
would be willing to share its space
with the shuttle. He said he hopes
to find a more permanent solution
within a month.
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longer donate his personal money
to the University.
But on Tuesday, Pape spoke
with Kilkenny in an attempt to
make him change his mind. Pape
said he thought Kilkenny might
reevaluate his decision. He sug
gested to Kilkenny that he throw
away the letter.
After Kilkenny sent a confirma
tion letter of resignation to Pape
on Thursday, all doubts were put
to rest.
“I regret that Kilkenny chose to
use resignation from the founda
tion board as a vehicle to express
his personal opinion ...” Pape
said.
Kilkenny, who graduated from
the University in 1974, told The
Register-Guard on Monday that
he would continue to support the
University even without serving
the trustees.
“I’m not walking away from
that. It’s a great school with great
people, and I wish them all the
best. By no means am I bailing out
on my interest in that marvelous
institution up in Eugene,” Kilken
ny said.
He was in the fourth year of his
five-year term on the board.
The board of trustees is a 50
member group that oversees the
trustees foundation, which re
ceives and allocates contributions
to the University. Pape explained
that Kilkenny will not be replaced
because the board can function
with a minimum of 45 or a maxi
mum of 55 members.
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