Re: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:48:37PM +1000, Adrian Morgan wrote:
> 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.
I see. Heh, I suppose I haven't been keeping up to date with viruses,
being on a Linux system which is not vulnerable most of the time. :-)

[snip]
> Yup - that's Bugbear for you. It looks through old emails that are
> still stored on your computer (assuming you're using Outlook Express)
> and distributes them to all and sundry. The security implications are
> worth pondering, here.
[snip]

No, this is my mailserver rejecting those messages. I don't have any of
them in my mailbox, although I *did* recall seeing one of them recently
(which I promptly deleted). My mail client doesn't open attachments by
default anyway (and .exe's are useless on Linux anyway), so it's more of
an annoyance than a concern.


T

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