Re: Is anyone getting strange posts?

May 3, 2002

I have gotten 5 posts today with attachments ostensibly through this list

from list members. They are all from people I know but there is no message

just an attachment. I am suspecting a virus and will attempt to clean it up.

Anyone else getting these? Kathy -NNY

May 3, 2002

Kathy, it seems there is a virus out there that has spread pretty fast.

Evidently some of these have new tricks. (see below)

I can assure everyone that no attachments can come through without us

physically changing the settings to allow an attachment.

Also, the only way to become infected with one of these viruses is if you

download (open) an attachment that's infected. (without having a good

up-to-date Anti-virus)

Cheryl

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html

Email spoofing

Some variants of this worm use a technique known as " spoofing. " If it does

this, it chooses at random an address that it finds on an infected computer

as the " From: " address that it uses when it performs its mass-mailing

routine. Numerous cases have been reported in which users of uninfected

computers receive complaints that they have sent an infected message to

someone else.

For example, is using a computer that is infected with

W32.Klez.E@mm; is not using a antivirus program or does not have

current virus definitions. When W32.Klez.gen@mm performs its emailing

routine, it finds the email address of Harold Logan. It inserts Harold's

email address into the " From: " line of an infected email that it then sends

to Janet Bishop. Janet then contacts Harold and complains that he sent her

infected email, but when Harold scans his computer, Norton AntiVirus does

not find anything--as would be expected--because his computer is not