GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: The FBI says it is working with officials in the Philippines to track a suspect who may have launched the "I love you" e-mail virus, which last week took millions of computers and their users worldwide hostage. CNN's Greg LeFevre, in San Francisco, reports on ways to protect your computer against viruses.</s>GREG LEFEVRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Five days after it first struck, the love bug and its copycats are still zooming around in cyberspace, ready to smack the next unsuspecting reader.</s>GENE HODGES, NETWORK ASSOCIATES: No, we are not done. We are probably going to see copycats for the next couple of weeks.</s>LEFEVRE: As people return to their computers this week, cautions remain. Don't open strange e-mail, especially those with subject lines "I love you," "forward joke," "Mothers Day" or "virus alert." Other warning signs include multiple copies of any e-mail and any attachment that ends in "vbs." VBS is Visual Basic, a very common programming language that this virus program is written in.</s>MICHAEL VATIS, FBI: Businesses are well aware of the problem, have updated their anti-virus software, which should detect and defeat the love bug virus and the 10 or 11 variants that exist out there now.</s>LEFEVRE: Experts complain that some computer users rely too much on technology and not enough on common sense.</s>HODGES: If you get e-mails that you're really not expecting, they might look like chain letters or joke letters or whatever, if you are not expecting them, why don't you wait a couple of days to open them up if you don't need them in your job.</s>LEFEVRE: Security sources say many companies did not update their software even after last year's Melissa virus attack. (on camera): E-mail is the new lifeblood of business communication. Viruses force companies to make tough choices about how or whether to restrict that flow and to worry about what kind of vital communication is lost in the process. Greg LeFevre, CNN, San Francisco.
Love Bug is Still Lingering and is Still a Serious Threat to Computers