Re: [Xoops-development] sobig and other viruses/worms

[Steve P. <st...@pu...>]

Hi Mike,

I'm increasingly annoyed at Mr. Gates' software sending out virus emails in 
my name. I do not use his software, yet it still causes me pain.

Here's a good virus cure: Reinstall your computer with Linux - it's really 
quite good you know.

Steve Purkiss
http://www.purkiss.com
doing IT with free software

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT), R. Michael van Dam 
<mv...@ca...> wrote:

>
> Can I request that everyone who reads this list please clean their system
> of viruses.  For those that are not aware, mail worms propagate by 
> sending
> themselves to people listed in an infected persons addressbook (e.g. from
> outlook express)... many of the latest viruses list in the "From" field
> another random name from that addressbook.
>
> Recently I have been receiving a huge number of messages 'returned mail'
> because my email has been listed in the 'From' field.  In the last day, I
> have seen that some of these messages are addressed to individual people
> on this list.  Thus I suspect that someone who reads this list and runs
> outlook express has an infected system.  BTW, I use 'pine' on linux for
> all my email.
>
> Has anyone else in this list been experiencing similar problems?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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