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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:24:38 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: The "Hi" virus msg to this list yesterday

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> The virus message that came through the SCOUG-Help list yesterday is, as
> far as I can determine so far, a spoof of one of our members'
> addresses. The original time stamp in the header is -0500 which means
> it came from the midwest time zone.
>
> The message is titled "Hi", came through the SCOUG-Help list server at
> 16:44 (-0700) on Wednesday, and contains a body which says "Important
> document!" with an attached .zip file. The .zip file contains one file
> which is named Important.txt(manyspaces).exe; this is an executable so
> be _very_ careful. I recommend that you delete the entire message so
> there's no chance in the future in will be opened and accidentally run.
>
> If you are using virus detection software then it may have been caught
> automatically.
>
> I didn't receive this message until this morning due to a couple of
> technical glitches including a dead POP3 mail server at one of my ISPs.
> Apologies for not being aware of this message earlier.

You make this sort of message sound rare. I get at least five per
day. Some have common elements so I have set filters. Those run in
batches for a couple weeks. Mozilla has even learned to flag some of
them as Junk.

It's the part of the current cost of doing business.

Ray

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