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From: "Editors of Life" <>
Subject: Re: attn list manager.....urgent please read!
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:47:16


Okay, now I'M sorry for posting virus information on a genealogy mailing
list, but sometimes you have to tell whoever's listening.

This virus that's going around- I've gotten it sent to me twice, myself-
only has one purpose- to reproduce itself. If you run the attachment, it
sends a copy of itself IN YOUR NAME to everybody in your address book- which
is often everyone you've ever sent a message to.

If you have the address to post messages to a group like this in your
address book (like ""), it will send the worm to the
mailing list, too.

So the person who sent you the virus is not a "nasty person", but merely
someone gullible enough to run an attachment without knowing what it was.
If everybody would just NEVER run an attachment without knowing EXACTLY what
it was, these worms/viruses wouldn't be so widespread.

But it sounds to me that if everybody in your address book got the virus,
and said they got it from you, then you did in fact doubleclick the
attachment and execute it.

Matt Scott

http://www.mp3.com/eofl



>From:
>To:
>Subject: attn list manager.....urgent please read!
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:26:54 EDT
>
>First, I want to say I am sorry for sending out a email in one group
>message,
>but I wasnt going to type this 30 times.
>
>Dear list manager,
>Please remove me from your list for now. It seems that there is a nasty
>person going through the mailing list and sending out some kind of virus.
>I
>have been getting all kinds of email from strangers telling me to "take a
>look at this file and give me your advice". It requires you to download
>it.
>I have not been doing so. I have been deleting the email instead of
>downloading. Some how, this person(s) has been able to get a hold of my
>email list form my computer and has been sending the same emails to my
>family
>and friends. Some of them with private emails (from work) that are not
>searchable on the net. Here is a copy of a note I sent to AOL in this
>problem (it also shows some of the emails I was sent and so were my family
>and friends):
>
>Hello, I don't know what to do. I am getting email like this from a number
>of different email address'. To make things worse, this person has ,
>somehow, been able to send the same mail to email address' on my buddy
>list.
>How is that possible? Some of the email address' I have on my buddy list
>are
>through private organizations (work) and not available to the internet
>public. But these person's are getting them. How do I fix this problem?
>
>Here are a few for you to look at that are being sent to me:
>Subj: M3
>Date: 7/24/2001 1:52:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>From: (rjkpl)
>To:
>
>File: M3.doc.lnk (279953 bytes) DL Time (34666 bps): < 2 minutes
>
>Subj: 1843
>Date: 7/24/2001 3:14:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>From: (black ted)
>To:
>
>File: 1843.doc.lnk (273637 bytes) DL Time (34666 bps): < 2 minutes
>Subj: send list
>Date: 7/24/2001 9:44:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>From: (Tanya Creacy)
>To:
>
>File: sendlist.doc.pif (195757 bytes) DL Time (34666 bps): < 1 minute
>
>
>
>Hi! How are you?
>
>I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
>See you later. Thanks
>
>(this person jtcreacy is the one I know for a fact that has sent email to
>my
>email list from my computer. how did they get my email address? I am the
>only one that uses my computer and this account. I have not open any mail
>that requires downloading.)
>
>Thank you, Angela DiBlasi
>I will resubscribe to you in a few weeks.
>
>
>
>
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