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Re: Virus

>From what I can find, the Virus looks at your inbox and sends itself out to 
people whio have sent you e-mail.  In this case, the e-mail from the list 
shows the from address as the person who sent the e-mail to the list.  If 
you receive the virus from me, for example, it would be because I have the 
virus and e-mail in my inbox with you listed an the sender.  While it is 
affecting people on the list, it is not using the list to spread itself.  It 
is using the e-mail in my inbox.  While I use Hotmail for all my e-mail, 
their virus software(McAfee) didn't see it as a virus.  Norton which I run 
on my computer did find it as soon as I downloaded it from hotmail.

Since I don't use MS Outlook, even is Norton didn't see it, it wouldn't be 
able to do anything.  If you receive an attachment that you aren't 
expecting, wait a few days and update your antivirus defination file.  When 
I was Network Admin, I used two different virus software programs.  One on 
the servers checking all files and e-mail on Exchange and a different 
package on the workstations.  the servers checked every night for new virus 
definations for both packages and the workstations updated every time 
someone logged in.  It pays to be careful, and to backup your data.  Several 
times I've lost parts of the windows directory for no apparant reason.  
Reloading windows and all the software is bad enough but recreating all the 
data isn't always possible.

Drummond


>From: BizEcology at aol_com
>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org
>To: KillieTalk at aka_org
>Subject: Virus
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:21:52 EDT
>
>I have received it a number of times, but AOL does not automatically 
>download
>attachments, so unless I download it, it won't do anything.  The latest 
>copy
>I received (today) was from Al Anderson and was named Pics.ZIP.scr.
>
>Larry Tagrin
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