RE: Hey

["Dave Hylands" <dhylands-at-broadcom.com>]

Many of the new viruses send a message from email A to email B but filled
out to look like it came from email C (which is pretty much what Peter
said).

So basically, somebody who has the list in their bookmarks was probably
infected, and there's nothing wrong with the list per say.

I'm very conscious of viruses (and run the Real-Time Norton Anti-Virus
Scanner), and some people I know got emails with attached viruses claiming
that they came from me, but I KNOW I wasn't infected. Our company mail
server filters out all of the known viruses so I don't get many anyways.

Dave Hylands

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter L. Ashford [ashford-at-SDSC.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Hey
> 
> 
> 
> Rey,
> 
> > Who else got this?  All of my e-mail is filtered, coming in & going
> > out. Does the Administrator of this list (emc-at-nist.gov) 
> have a filter
> > he (or she?) can use to filter out virii that may be lurking in the
> > e-mails on this list? I've seen variations of this message, and it's
> > really annoying to think that someone on this list could be 
> infecting
> > others' systems.
> 
> It looks to me like the message went to the list.  I don't 
> think there was
> an attachment, as when Klez was running rampant, we still received the
> message, but the virus attachment was replaced with a statement saying
> that a virus had been removed (at least, that's what I recall).
> 
> I think that what we have is a Klez (or similar) virus faking 
> a source of
> the EMC list, and a user (virus recipient) who hasn't a clue.
> 
> 				Peter Ashford
>