DESCRIPTION:
The Myparty is a mass-mailer worm which spreads via attachments between the 25th and 29th of January. The infected message will have the "Subject: new photos from my party", "Attachments name: www.myparty.yahoo.com" and "Message body:
Hello!
My party... It was absolutely amazing!
I have attached my web page with new photos!
If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks!"
REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS:
FOR WINDOWS 95/98/ME
- Boot up your computer with a clean DOS Boot Diskette from drive A
- Place your V-Buster diskette in Drive A and type "Vbuster" [ENTER]
- Use V-Buster to scan your computer. Delete all occurances of the virus
- When the scan is complete, exit to Dos. At the A prompt, type "C:" [ENTER]
- Copy back any files that you have previously deleted
- Shut-down and restart your computer
WINDOWS NT/2000/XP
- Boot up Windows
- Click on "Start", "Run" and type "Cmd". Click on "OK"
- Press "Ctrl-Alt-Del" Click on "Processes"
- Find "Explorer.exe" and click on "End Process"
- Put the V-Buster diskette in your Drive A
- Click on "Start", "Run" and type "A:VBUSTER". Click on "OK"
- Use V-Buster to scan your computer. Delete all occurances of the virus
- Click on "Start", "Run" and type "C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE". Click on "OK"
- Recopy any files that you have previously deleted