Killer Resume

Dateline: June 5, 2000

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Even if your computer wasn't infected by Love Bug, there's a newer virus going around that might affect you, especially if you send your resume to employers by email. Love Bug encouraged hackers to unleash a string of copycat viruses, one of which presents itself as an innocent-looking email with a resume file attachment. It resembles this:

The attachment is a Microsoft Word file named Explorer.doc or Resume.doc. Dubbed "Killer Resume" and targeted at the corporate world, it's even nastier than Love Bug. When a user opens the file, Killer Resume emails itself to everyone in the user's electronic address book, just like Love Bug does. But because Killer Resume is a macro virus of the Trojan type, it waits to do its dirty work until the user closes the file. Killer Resume then attempts to delete all files in the root, My Documents and Windows or WinNT directories on drive C, including operating system files. It even tries to delete root directory files on diskettes in drives A and B. If successful, Resume Killer completely disables computers.

Thanks to all the media hoopla over Love Bug, computer users are now more wary of email file attachments. As a result, so far Killer Resume hasn't spread as much as the FBI thought it might. Still, it's a strong lesson for job seekers.

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