It targets Microsoft Word and Outlook-based systems and created considerable network traffic.
Attached is a Word document titled "list.doc," containing a list of pornographic sites and accompanying logins for each.
[3] Smith used a hijacked AOL account to post the virus onto an Internet newsgroup called "alt.sex.
"[4] It soon ended up on similar sex groups and pornographic sites before spreading to corporate networks.
This, and the Kwyjibo alias used in the macro script, both derive from an episode of The Simpsons, "Bart the Genius".
[8] The Computer Emergency Response Team, a Pentagon-financed security service at Carnegie Mellon University, reported 250 organizations called regarding the virus, indicating at least 100,000 workplace computers were infected, although the number is believed to be higher.