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Re: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Saturday, October 19, 2002, 21:51
What about those of us who are using shared/public
computers?  I know that the uni's actually pretty good
at preventing these sorts of things, but you never
know.

Clint


--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>: > > > > > Furthermore, the content of the email is very > suspicious: it appears to > > be > > a truncated copy of a GENUINE message sent to > CONLANG a while ago, > > however > > with a long binary attachment of type > application/x-msdownload and > > (very > > suspicious) filename "icq200b.exe.exe". > > > > I just received today an empty email with just this > same file as attachment. It > came from an address which pretended to come from > Padraic. Also, in the last > few days, I've received two other empty emails like > that, with attachments > with .gif.pif endings (or .pif.gif, I cannot > remember exactly). The email > addresses looked familiar, but not exactly. Maybe it > came from the same > source... Luckily, I don't use Outlook, but my plain > ol' webmail interface > which cannot read show anything fancier than plain > text and puts anything which > is not plain text into attachments that don't open > automatically. So I'm pretty > safe here. To be sure that I'm not the one infected, > I'm right now performing a > full scan of my computer. But since the BugBear > virus was already recognised by > my Virusscan, I don't think I was infected (I do at > least one scan per day. I > was a little worried that it didn't update its virus > definition file lastly, > but I just solved that problem). > > We're currently 374 subscribers on the list, and it > can come from anybody, even > a lurker. So it is indeed important that everyone on > the list checks their > computer. Let's just hope it doesn't come from > someone who is NOMAIL at this > moment... Luckily, BugBear is not anymore a very > dangerous virus (McAfee just > put it out of their list of dangerous virusses. It > is now considered "medium > risk"). > > Christophe. > > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr > > Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else > play the leading role.
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