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Re: Please don't delete this! was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)

From:Jake X <alwaysawake247@...>
Date:Saturday, October 19, 2002, 21:45
There's a free fix from Symantexc even if yopu don't have Norton, but I
don't have the URL on hand.  Unfortunately, the fix didn't work for me, and
I had to buy the newest version of their software.  That hasn't been the
case with everyone else I know who downloaded it.

Jake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pablo David Flores" <pablo-flores@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: Please don't delete this! was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)


> I want to thank H. S. Teoh for warning the list about this virus. > It turns out I don't have it (Symantec's removal kit says I don't, > and neither does my system show any of the behaviours associated > with it, or any of the files typically created by this virus), but > obviously someone has it. Bugbear forges email address precisely > in order to divert attention from the infected source, so anyone > with messages coming from me can be infected. > > In any case, I'll refrain to post for this weekend, so as to update > all my virus definitions, scan my system thoroughly a few times more, > and let everybody do the same. > > > --Pablo Flores > http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html > "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments > of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. > No one knows the shape of that future or where it > will take us. We know only that it is always born > in pain." -- G'Kar quoting G'Quon, in "Babylon 5" >