Announcement on LENR-CANR

[Jed Rothwell]

[We had another apparent report of this. We do not want to be blamed, and 
we want to tell people how to deal with the problem. If it is a 
denial-of-service attack, it is not working, because traffic is only a 
little heavier than normal. - JR]

June 29, 2004. A CYBER ATTACK ON LENR-CANR IS UNDERWAY. Over the past week, 
a few people have reported that LENR-CANR pops up in their web browser, and 
they cannot make it go away. In some cases it is linked to an XXX 
pornagraphic web site. This is caused by a computer virus, worm or spyware. 
It may be a denial-of-service attack, or an attempt to give us a bad name. 
If this happens to you, please run the latest version of an anti-viral 
program as soon as possible, before the virus damages your computer or 
spreads to other computers. Please note that this virus did not originate 
in our web site, and there is nothing we can do about it. There are no 
executable files at this web site. Every file here has been checked with 
the Norton AntiVirus program, updated today.