Re: Virus

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

What are the chances that the thing we've been receiving is
a more-evil-than-usual spam, and not a replicant traveling
through a list or some friend or colleague's computer? I
just discovered that Earthlink's "Spaminator" caught and
held back one addressed to me, complete with sexyfun return
address, on Jan 30.

Judith Davidsen

"Yo Intl." wrote:
>
> At 12:27 PM 2/4/01 -0500, Michael Norman wrote:
> >For the record, I received the hahaha virus today, with the usual
> >snow-white and dwarfs paragraph message. Norton Antivirus caught and
> >deleted it right away. I can not, of course, say where this came from. I
> >only belong to one list, this one, but that's hardly an indication. At all
> >events, the folks on this list might want to run virus checks on this
> >machines. I scanned mine three times before sending this.
>
> It can come from anybody who has your address in her address book; no
> particular reason to suspect the mailing list.
> And the "snow-white" message is not anymore usual than the dozen or so
> other messages which this particular virus (usually called "Hybris-G"
> produces at random).
> Just fwiw
>
> -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
> -- "Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar
> Wilde)