Craig Dunn Clark on mon 16 jun 03
It is difficult at best to speculate as to the source of viri on
clayart. With the increasing generation and sophistication of internet born
computer viruses and worms the list of probable sources is quite lengthly
indeed. One needn't even open an attachment anymore to become infected.
I said this before so I'll say it again. One method to "stay clean", other
than not using the machine-abstinence sucks, is to subscribe to the virus
protection that is offered by any decent ISP. Do this in addition to the
protection that is on your personel machine. My ISP is hal-pc.org. They are
a non-profit and are now national. They offer exceptional service. Priced
cheaper than any on the corporate giants.
Hope this helps
Craig Dunn Clark
619 East 11 1/2 st
Houston, Texas 77008
(713)861-2083
mudman@hal-pc.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Brunner"
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: email viruses- general Clayart.
> SOMEONE on clayart though DID get a virus, who else would have all of
> our e-mail addresses in their mail folder? It's just that it isn't
> necessarily (and probably isn't) the person that it appears to be.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Louis Katz
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: email viruses- general Clayart.
>
> Clayart is experiencing a rash of email viruses. These come in various
> forms and look different from each other. Our main server support
> specialist says they get someone's address book and start writing
> emails from one address to another. That is they use one address from
> the address book as the "Reply to" address. These emails are not sent
> by these people who are listed in the source code. Thus the message I
> received today "from" Dannon Rudy" did not come from her. It only looks
> like it. It came from some virus that hijacked a address book
> containing both of our addresses.
>
> After these messages go out there is usually a flurry of error messages
> that go to the "reply to" person. Invariably some of the hijacked
> addresses are no good.
>
> The subject line of these messages are often chosen from messages in
> the same person who" provided" the address book. Thus the subject of
> the message I received was "Re: is it hakeme or hakami?"
>
> Louis
>
>
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