Love Bug hides in baby pics

A variant of the Love Bug virus is reported to be spreading in the guise of e-mail titled "My baby pic!!!". Like its predecessor and many recent viruses, it is written in Microsoft's Visual Basic language and targets the Outlook e-mail client on Windows PCs. Similarly, it depends on users opening an EXE file, in this case "mybabypic.exe". Besides sending itself to others in the address book, the worm can change the status of the CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys and destroy JPEG images, MP3 audio clips, and source-code files in Visual Basic, Pascal, and C++.

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