I believe I was one of the victims of the W32badtrans virus. I wish to
apologise to anyone this sent an e-mail to without my knowlege. Anyone
infected by this virus needs to change any passwords on their computer
including the password to their internet service provider as this virus can
pass these to a third party.
Happy New Year
Steven Kirk
1962 Series 2
> The virus, W32badtrans, isn't coming from the list server... it's coming
from
> people who are members of the list that are infected. It copies the
infected
> PC's address book and mails itself to everyone in it. It also keeps a
record of
> all your keystrokes and phones home. I''m sure it does this every time the
PC is
> rebooted and probably on a regular timed interval too. It's important to
> remember that our list server won't pass attachments.
>
> Another virus, W32Goner, is designed to hit a workstation and knock out
any
> security settings or software on the PC. It opens the door for
W32Badtrans.
>
> Users that aren't infected WON'T pass the virus by sending mail to the
list. It
> is only sent by users that are already infected and the e-mail does NOT
pass
> through the list server. You are only getting it from people that have you
in
> their address book. MS Outlook Express is bad for this because it
automatically
> places everyone you reply to in your address book. Whether you like it or
not!
> This setting can be disabled within Outlook's options. - Ian
>
> P.S. Bruce Davis is infected. He does know because I got an e-mail from
him last
> night about it. Everyone using this list should check their PC's for the
above
> mentioned viruses. They are being passed around BIG TIME right now.
>
> Rick Harrison wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I was wondering whether anyone else is getting virus-infected reponses
to
> > their postings to this list. It has happened to me twice now, with the
> > subject "re:(whatever the subject of my posting was)". The last one I
> > received was from a Ron Davis - is he a member of the list? I sent a
warning
> > about the virus to his address but got an undelivered response.
> >
> > Rick Harrison
> >
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