Re: ADMIN: was: Re: Very Weird

[Guest guest]

> I've gotten those Microsoft ones before, and they stopped after I

> reportedthe abuse to Yahoo, but now I've got 'em again too. Could

> someone have

> signed up for group and be slipping them in? Paypal repeatedly (on

> everyemail) says make SURE it's really paypal before you give a

> card number or

> anything--probably prime invasion territory given the $ involved!

>

> Terry

Actually what has happened is someone's computer was infected by a worm which

grabs every addy in their mail program and sends out a virus attached to an

email which usually looks legitimate and isn't.

You should not worry about viruses coming thru via the list, this is precisely

why I have it set up to strip attachments.

I will let the person know they may be infected (or may not, many of these

viruses will spoof email addresses so they appear to be coming from someone they

are not) and they should run a virus checker.

With the proliferation of these viruses, it is a very good idea for everyone to

get their hands on a good virus checker or two and run them a couple times a

week (unless you run linux or Apple, then you're chances of getting viriied is

pretty minimal, but it never hurts to do it anyways).

Jean C