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Re: Weirdness

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 11:54
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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

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