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ATTN Brett
that would be the w32.klez variants
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Jarrett" <jarrett@rpa.net>
To: "Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>; "Scirocco"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: ATTN Brett
> On 12/17/02 3:18 AM, "Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey, I jsut got an email that was 158k in size sent from
> > majordomo@scirocco.org. nothing in the email but it still got here. Jsut
> > though you might want to know
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Someone on the list, or someone that at some point that had
> majordomo@scirocco.org in their address book, has a virus. I don't know
its
> name, but the virus will harvest the infected computer's address book and
> fake mail from that address to propogate itself.
>
> Majordomo is no longer the email list management software, so that address
> is defunct, therefore nothing would ever come from it.
>
> It wasn't Brett who sent it, 'cause he was out yesterday and today and not
> online.
>
> And, I know it's not Brett's computer that's infected, 'cause they are all
> Macintoshes or Sun workstations.
>
> I would suggest running a virus scan on *your* computer -- you may have
> infected yourself reading that note. Again, I don't know the mechanisms
> under which it propogates (having only Macs and Sun workstations myself, I
> don't have to worry :-D )
>
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