Yeah, the acsalaska.net infectee just used my email name to send one to the list! (I didn't do it, honest!) I'm getting about 2-3 klez virus msgs a day at work. Luckily, our company firewall renames any executable, (or .pif, etc.) to .xxx, and my antivirus program shreds the attachment (and my local sw firewall quarantines it after that, so I'm pretty safe, but I feel sorry for any naive users without protection. Dave 90 Westy At 02:28 PM 4/17/2003 -0600, Bob Stevens wrote: >"Since the virus uses random addresses pulled from the infected computer to >put in the From field this method will likely block mail from users on the >list that are not infected. We need alaska.net to take action but all of >the emails sent to them so far have fallen on deaf ears." > >ds > >.....Except that I haven't seen any of these come from the >vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM address. If the mail comes thru the listserv, >won't it have the van/gerry address in the "from"...and I'll get it even if >the individual is blocked? > >Bob > >http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare |
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