Re: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)

Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
>
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > Sorry to send this here, but just in case this *is* caused by a virus,
> > people should know about it, especially since it appears to be targeted
> > specifically to CONLANG subscribers.
>
> What you are describing is, in fact, the infamous Bugbear virus. You
> probably would have seen it mentioned on the news a couple of weeks
> ago.
>
> > My mail server has just received 17 emails, supposedly from Pablo Flores,
> > from an email server of questionable repute. The source and destination
> > email addresses have obviously been forged, as it claims to be sent from
> > "pablo-flores@Q...", which obviously doesn't exist,
>
> The Bugbear virus forges email addresses by taking the bit before the
> "@" from one person and the bit after the "@" from another person, and
> putting them together. Don't ask me why.
    My ISP recently intercepted two emails with the Bugbear virus:

: Cybershore's viruschecker found the
:       W95/Bugbear.A@mm
: virus(es) in an email to you from:
: ronny.gelhever@kro.nl
: Delivery of the email was stopped!

: Cybershore's viruschecker found the
:       W95/Bugbear.A@mm
: virus(es) in an email to you from:
: elemtilas@arnet.com.ar
: Delivery of the email was stopped!

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