[uug] Hazards of group projects

[Chris Kosanovich]

 So i am doing a group project for one of my GE's and one of the people 
emails everyone in the group and of course does not use bcc but sticks 
everyone's email address in the to: field (didn't we all learn from 
Novell?!?) So today i get an email that is from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (yeah 
i know "support" he sits across the room from me at work!) and it says 
that the mail server has detected my email account sending viruses and i 
should download free software to clean my system. Well i was scared so i 
downloaded and typed
 $  ./tgeuhc.exe
because i figured it must be a good fix with a naming convention like that!
 Any way on to the serious part of the discussion, i looked through the 
header file and foudn that it had been sent by someone in my group but 
the odd thing is that it was sent from a @yahoo.com address. Now i want 
everyone's opinion (well... maybe not EVERYONE's) can they use outlook, 
or something similar, to pop messages from yahoo? (If so then i totally 
understand how this got sent.) Or is yahoo a strickly web-based email 
system in which case either someone else hijacked their email and 
manually sends out these emails, or this person is experimenting with 
trojans and such and figured unleashing them on a GE class would be a 
good start.
 Any way, i emailed the other people in my group to make sure if they 
got this message not to open it (you never know what people fall for)

-Chris

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