Re: Weirdness
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 18:17 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Weirdness
> Roger Mills scripsit:
> > Is anyone else being besieged by messages (approx. every 5 min.) from
> > "chong" at "pkrisc.cc.ukm.my"? I assume _my_ is Myanmar?? This started
> > last Sat. orSunday, 7/27-28.
> > The subject line varies from one Indonesian word to another, some
unfamiliar
> > to me. Because of this I suspect my name was found on the Austronesian
> > List, but there have been no notices there.
> > My ISP is quarantining the messages, on the grounds that they contain a
> > virus. Occasionally one slips thru, with a file attached, which needless
to
> > say I don't open.
>
> Don't: it's probably the SirCam virus, which is quite nasty, but
> harmless if you don't mess with the attachment.
Translated, this SirCam virus is the "Hi, How are you?" virus that I
warned everyone about last week. I've received only five of them,
and only on this account. Bryan's report of over a hundred seems
appallingly, especially since to receive one slows my mail downloading
by about three minutes. It's a long attachment, and it takes a long time to
download. Don' t open it! Why is it called "SirCam"?
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net