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It very definitely is. However, I have been in
Kentucky since early Tuesday morning, returned home early this afternoon, and
have not knowingly sent any messages to the MacLean List, with or without
attachments, and containing a virus.
I suspect that whatever e-mail it was (with
attachment and virus) was probably sent to my home computer from the office in
Burlington, where they insist on continuing to use Microsoft Outlook as their
e-mail client. Personally I prefer Outlook Express (or Eudora) for my e-mail
client. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that most viruses, worms, etc. seem
to be spread by people using Microsoft Outlook as their e-mail client. About
every two or three weeks, a virus comes in to the office in Burlington, and as
is typical of them, they send themselves out to many or all of the e-mail
addresses in the address book of the recipient. Since I was away, I can only
guess that maybe it is one of those new types of virus that can self-propagate
without the recipient having to open up the attachment that contains
it.
I have already received notices from six different
people telling me that they received that virus-infected e-mail from me. Five of
the people I've heard from are not on the MacLean List.
Anyhow, I would like everyone to know that I have
removed the offending virus off my computer, and cleaned all the infected files
that were found.
Donnie, you mentioned that the culprit attachment
was "on the President Bust email." I assume you meant to write "President Bush."
In any case, I keep all my e-mails (received, sent and deleted) for a minimum of
two months before removing them permanently from my computer. I just looked back
over all of them, and I did not see any e-mail with an attachment that even
looked suspicious. Therefore, I am completely baffled as to how that one would
have got through my computer and out to God knows how many of the names in my
address book.
I suppose there is some small consolation in
knowing that at least the virus does not appear to completely destroy one's
computer.
By the way, one of the people that wrote to me said
that the virus is called W32.Magistr.39921@mm
Dave
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- virus alert. Don & Tonie
- David L. Gomez
