RE: OT: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl W. Brown
Some have the .lnk and others a .bat Carl > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of $B$F$s$I$&$j$e$&$8(B > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: OT: some kind of virus? &g

RE: OT: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread
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RE: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Christopher J Fynn
Besides several mails containing an attachment with this W32.Sircam.Worm@mm I've been getting an extraordinary number of mails with an attachment containing the TROJ_SIRCAM.A virus during the past 24 hours. - Chris

RE: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Michael Everson
Everyone, *My* system is not infected. I use a Macintosh, and can't remember if the last time I saw a virus on it was in 1989 or 1990. (Michael feels delicious glee.) I'm just the victim of the poor sods whose mailers are taken by it and sending to me. Why they are sending to me is a mystery.

Re: OT: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 15:39 2001-07-24 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: >I KNOW this isn't the forum for this, but for the last three days It's the W32/SirCam@MM virus. It is the nastiest virus yet, just look at the sheer number of infected systems that keep trying to spread it. It is extremely annoying even if you a

Re: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Arijit Upadhyay
hyay - Original Message - From: Michael (michka) Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:56 PM Subject: Re: some kind of virus? > The cause of the virus is a web crawler. I suspect that th

Re: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I have gotten roughly 100 of them, from various email addresses on my web site. michka - Original Message - From: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8

Re: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
The cause of the virus is a web crawler. I suspect that they are pulling them off of the yahoo archive site. michka - Original Message - From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:39 AM Subject: OT: some kin

RE: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl W. Brown
ay, July 24, 2001 7:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: some kind of virus? > > > I KNOW this isn't the forum for this, but for the last three days > I've been getting mail from all sorts of people I never heard of, > which contains some 170K attachment, and t

OT: some kind of virus?

2001-07-24 Thread Michael Everson
I KNOW this isn't the forum for this, but for the last three days I've been getting mail from all sorts of people I never heard of, which contains some 170K attachment, and the following text: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks. And sometim