Not with McAfee up to date I hope, but I didn't even need that, I saw the attachment and remembered that Bugbear attachment was 50 Kish Bytes and saw a strange Re: message with a 50.8 KB attachment - but as you say, never say never! I've had Nimda in the past on a server so know what its like, 14,567 files affected, took 2 days to clean and was never the same until I reformatted the thing and started over again. I said f*** because this was malevelant, someones collecting addresses from syncro.org and probably here as well. Guess they think it fun, sad sods. I've just had another one today - the BBC news is virtually giving a running commentary on the progress of Bugbear, hour by hour! Its IS a nasty thing if it gets on your machine without an active and fully updated scanner running - the subject line starts Re: ???????? Clive ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:36 PM Subject: Re: Virus Alert
> At 04:25 PM 10/4/2002, Clive Smith wrote: > >some f*** out there is sending pmails > > Careful Clive, you might catch one yourself someday...the first (and only, > so far) virus I've distributed was in fact to all 800 members of the > Vanagon list, and it happened when I used my sister's computer in Seattle > to send mail. Her machine had been infected for seven months at the time > (it was the one that put up a little fireworks display if you ran it -- > Good Times? I forget) -- but she used AOL which doesn't go through the > regular TCP/IP stack and wasn't affected. I installed a "real" mailer, and > guess where I sent my first message... > > cheers, > david > > > -- > David Beierl - Providence, RI > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" > '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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