Re: CS>virus reaction
From: David Bearrow
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:17:50
> I don't think it is a diabolical person who is on the list that is
> attacking the list maliciously. Most of the bad emails have been
> infected with various worms. These worms were cleverly written to
> not only harvest email addresses from its victim but it also
> harvests the emails themselves and creates emails based on content
> it finds in the email it harvests. Occams razor tells me that
> likely one or more people on our list have been infected with one
> of the new cleverly written worms.
> Dave
Good point, Dave. It could be a worm. You'd think if it was a worm,
more people on the list would get these emails. But they only seem
to affect one or two people at a time.
I tried to send several emails to the sender's address. They were
all different, and they all bounced. It is true a worm could fake an
address, but in order to create the most havoc, they generally leave
the address valid so people would blame an innocent person. On the
other hand, a malicious sender would definitely fake his return
address to avoid detection.
And how would a worm know that Jonathan was interested in Flax Oil?
The last time this phrase occurs in the subject line is Jonathan's
post titled "CS>EPA/DHA (Fish Oil, Flax Oil)" on 8 Oct 2001:
http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/m40762.html
A worm would not search the list archives and locate a phrase that
would be of interest to Jonathan. Also, he received his virus
recently. So it's hard to tell for sure, but I tend to lean towards
an individual as the source of these messages.
But, as in everything associated with the internet, always practice
save hex:)
Turn off javascript, and disable html. All of these help a virus
writer gain access to your computer. Although there are many methods
available that don't need any user action to load a virus.
The safest is to follow the recommendations of many groups, and
don't use Microsoft products on the internet. They will never fix
all the holes in their products.
Use Firefox instead of MS Explorer, and any of the numerous email
clients instead of Outlook.
And be very careful of attachments. Perhaps someone knows of a
scanner that can check email attachments for executables and delete
them.
But I don't have to worry - they won't even run on my system:)
Best Wishes,
Mike Monett
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