Re: Virus warning

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Nothing here.
Judith Davidsen

Steve Hayes wrote:
>
> For the last few weeks I have been getting spam e-mail messages ostensibly
> from hahaha@xxxxxxxx, about Snowhite and the seven dwarfs, with an
> attached .exe or .scr file.
>
> I've usually deleted the message and the file, but eventually got sick of it,
> and replied from another address (I did not want to reply from my usual
> address in case it was trolling for confirmation of spamming addresses).
>
> I got a reply indicating that the address was forged, and was being used to
> distribute a virus. I checked the headers to see where the message was coming
> from, and the only possible candidate wasn't someone I knew who would be
> sending mail.
>
> That leaves the possibility that it may be coming from a member of one of the
> mailing lists I belong to -
>
> XyWrite,
> coinherence
> electric trolleybus lists.
>
> If you have been getting messages from hahaha@xxxxxxxx, please check the
> headers, and let me know where they are coming from, and let me know which of
> the lists you belong to.
>
> Also, DON'T open any of the attached files!
>
> Sorry about the off-topic message, but *someone* whom I don't know is sending
> me these messages, and therefore presumably belongs to one of these lists,
> and is possibly infected with this virus.
>
> Keep well,
>
> Steve Hayes
> E-mail: shayes@xxxxxxxx
>  Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm