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Everyone I know is so busy these days - family, work, health and fitness all consume large chunks of their days. Too bad we can't donate chores from our to-do lists to the author of the MyLife worms, who apparently has little to occupy their time and thus wastes it needlessly on creating mundane worm variants. The latest in this not-so-exciting batch of badness are variants G and H, initially discovered by MessageLabs on April 10, 2002. According to Alex Shipp, Senior Anti-Virus Technologist for MessageLabs, MyLife.G is received in an email with the following characteristics:

Subject: ox <--> sharon
Hi All,
look to the ox caricature it's very sad
ox <===> sharon
it's funny :-)
bye
Attachment: ox&Wife.scr

According to Alex, the mass-mailing routine on MyLife.G appears to be faulty, but the worm does have a similar malicious payload as previous variants, attempting to delete files from drive C:\.

MyLife.H arrives in email as follows:

Subject: peeeeeep
Hiiiii All
How are youuuuuuuu?
look to the movi peeeeeep
it's vvvery verrrry ffffunny :-) ;-)

Attachment: peeeeep.mpeg.scr
========No Viruse Found========
         MCAFEE.COM
-------------------------------

Obviously, the misspelled 'No Viruse Found' message is a fake. In any event, even legitimate virus disclaimers can't be trusted.

According to MessageLabs data, the five most prevalent viruses circulating in email are (in order) Klez.E, SirCam, Magistr.B, Hybris.B, and Magistr.A.