VeronaB is a destructive virus that causes problems with the registry files of your computer. It comes as a message with two different attachments, xromeo.exe and xjuliet.chm. The St. Michael's mail server was shut down for two days to clean up the virus. The worm comes as an attachment that appears to be an image of famous tennis player and bombshell Anna Kournikova. If you try to open the attachment, it sends a copy of itself to everyone in your address book.
Some viruses are more of an annoyance than of a damaging nature.
Like the Worm virus, some are just made to send a message, either political or social. Some can make an entire computer crash, and force you to reformat your machine, or even buy a new one. The best thing to do to prevent this from happening is to never open email from someone you don t know, and keep your anti-virus software updated. If it does strike your computer, the web sites mentioned previously will help tremendously. If you pay for software at a computer store, you get the technical support as well, Peterson says.