A local infection took 2 hours of direct intervention, and 16 hours of processing on the local machine. There is an extensive list of the file name attachments and more information from Symantec here . We have posted a copy of Symantec's fix here . This worm spreads via Microsoft Outlook Express. Make sure that you have the security patch installed for Microsoft Outlook Express.
More information is available here .
Execution of this attachment will open a text file in Notepad displaying the male and female stages of life. While the user is reading the text file the script is executing in the background. More details can be found here . The program will check your computer with no indication of progress, so please be patient and let it run. It will verify infection and remove it, or it will say you were not infected.