[MR] Re: *WH* email virus - please scan

[Donald Wagner]

Greetings!

This is a nasty one.  Propogates fast, has malicious properties both 
local and external, and can make a mail administrator go batty.(they're 
coming to take me away...haha..hehe)

Truth is, you really can't trust attachments any more.  Most ISPs don't 
want to set all-inclusive filters because of the affect it has on 
responsible users.  Most ISPs are reconsidering that decision today.

Falcone

Tankred Bras-de-Fer wrote:

>Poster: Tankred Bras-de-Fer <tankred at nc.rr.com>
>I did too. When I got it I noticed the there was a "_" (underscore) (i.e. _abcd at somewhere.com) before the
>e-mail address of the "sender".  It is the W32.Badtrans.B at mm virus. Please update your virus scanning
>software. I am clean BTW according to Norton AV 2002  :-) And they say that this is a nasty one!
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>Tankred
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>Magy Freyser wrote:
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>>Poster: Magy Freyser <clairjamie at yahoo.com>
>>I don't want to alarm people, or take up too much of your time, but I
>>recieved an email this morning from an SCA person in a response to one of
>>my emails.  It contains a worm virus.  If you are unaware - if you open
>>it, it will attach to your address book and send an email to everyone in
>>it with the virus included.  Please run a virus scan to insure you aren't
>>sending viruses to the rest of us.
>>
>>Thanks for your time!
>>Magy
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>>Minister of Arts & Sciences
>>Canton of Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
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