Many virus hoaxes falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus often describe impossible things the virus can do in bogus pseudo-technical language falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues
As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the continued re-forwarding of hoaxes like this simply wastes time and email bandwidth.
It is possible that you may receive a hoax via email with a file attached. Obviously, such file attachments should be treated with caution as they may be virus infected.
Deleting virus hoax emails, whether they contain file attachments or not.

Script,Batch,Macro and non memory-resident:
Use specified engine and DAT files for detection and removal.

Note1- Microsoft has released an update for Outlook as an email attachment security update. For a list of attachments blocked and a general FAQ, visit this link. Additionally, Network Administrators can configure this update using an available tool - visit this link for more information.

Note2- It is very common for macro viruses to disable options within Office applications for example in Word, the macro protection warning commonly is disabled. After cleaning macro viruses, ensure that your previously set options are again  enabled.

PE,Trojan,Internet Worm and memory resident:
Use specified engine and DAT files for detection. To remove, boot to MS-DOS mode or use an emergency boot diskette and use the command line scanner such as "SCANPM C: /CLEAN /ALL"

As always, users are advised to keep their anti-virus software current by checking their Anti-Virus vendor websites frequently for new updates, and to stay apprised of alerts from NIPC, CERT, and other cognizant organizations.