Bugbear (not in here)

[Steve Laifman <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>]

Listers,

As a public service, I am copying a part of an article from 
http://www.macintouch.com/ , a much respected Macintosh web site, 
concerning the Bugbear WINDOWS worm, and how a message with my name 
could have been sent to the list. Note, it was gleaned from a 
recipient's Windows in-box. The article (should be there through the 
weekend) continues with more technical stuff on the Windows new virus.

Steve

Quote:

Bugbear 
<http://www.messagelabs.com/news/virusnews/detail/default.asp?contentItemId=427&region=america>
 
is a nasty new Windows worm that can affect Mac users by hijacking our 
email addresses from Windows systems (although the worm code itself 
should not execute on the Mac). You may receive error messages from 
emails sent by the worm to any victim with your hijacked email address 
in the "From" field, and you may receive worm emails with any randomly 
hijacked email address in the "From" field. A MessageLabs release 
describes the worm:


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Steve Laifman
Editor
http://www.TigersUnited.com