Fw: [DML] ADMIN NOTE: Virus thing

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham@xxxx>]

Just a little warning, I had a similar virus infect me a few weeks ago. My
tip is not to open any sort of attachment unless you recognise the sender
and that the sender SPECIFICLY refers to the attached file in his covering
email....you can always write back to him and ask him ( or her) about the
contents BEFORE opening it.

I cost me days of work and inconvenience to sort out my set up!

Chris P.....Martin knows all about these things.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:27 AM
Subject: [DML] ADMIN NOTE: Virus thing


> This will be the last post on the Virus.
>
> We are aware of an email virus that has been repeatedly hitting list
> members. This is not coming through the list, we do not pass
> attachments and do not moderate through meaningless messages
> (usually!).
>
> One of our digest version list-members (mdrig aka yugoman)
> is "infected" with this virus. It replicates itself through email if
> you are using a Microsoft Email client (thanks Bill). It apparently
> replicates itself to the infectees address book AND any addresses
> contained in any unread email in his inbox (i.e. the digest). If you EVER
clicked on the attachment, you are now infected too (unless you have a
Mac).
>
> I have written to "mdrig" to explain the problem, AND disabled this
> his DML account so that it will stop sending out mails in response to
> digests, but I cannot do anything else about it. These are NOT coming
> through the list itself.
>
> If you see any mail with an attachment ending in .pif or .exe, just
> delete it. Eventually it will stop (I hope).
>
> (Thanks Martin, (DOC-UK)) For more info on the virus, and how to remove
it, see
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.13312@xxxxxxx
>
> If you are reading this online, the characters in the above URL that are
suppressed after the @ are mm.html.
>
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