Date:         Sat, 5 Oct 2002 00:41:40 +0100
Reply-To:     Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject:      Re: Virus Alert
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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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"