Like the Melissa and Explore. JPEG and MP3 files on a user's hard drive, like a traditional virus. Officials at the National Infrastructure Protection Center were meeting Thursday to discuss the attack's impact. Clues within the virus code indicate that it may have originated in the Philippines. A spokesman for Super.
Net provides Internet access by selling pre-paid cards.
Users buy a pre-paid card and then use the user name and password on the card to reach the Internet for a specified amount of time. ICSA.net has 200,000 clients, among them financial institutions, government agencies and corporations, Tibbett said. The Department of Justice used the company's estimates for damage caused by last year's Melissa virus, he said. According to ICSA.net, the Melissa virus infected 20 percent of North American companies' computer systems. Every Senate office has been paged to alert them to the virus.