[NLRS] Kelz.E virus

[John P. Toscano]

jcplatt1@mmm.com wrote:
> 
> I had three yesterday and three more today, most from "sources" that
> are NLRSers . . .
> 
> Donn Baker <wa2voi@minnmicro.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The (*^* thing IS LOOSE within the NLRS community !!!
> >
> > I got 4 messages overnight from NLRS member that were infected. . .

For what it's worth, the virus has clearly NOT gotten into the
mailman.qth.net mail list (or if it DID get IN, it never got OUT).
It seems to be a relatively localized infection among NLRS'ers -- maybe
only one of us got it originally, and it's spreading from there only.
I haven't received any copies of it (at least, not yet), though I've
seen plenty of traffic ABOUT it here on the NLRS reflector after
returning to my computer to read mail tonight (been away from it for
most of this week).

My regular mail server (tc.umn.edu, which is pointed to by my tcrc.org
alias) has a virus scanner that will insert a virus warning at the top
of any messages in which it detects a virus (but passes the virus along
anyway), so I would have received (and manually deleted) the virus if
it had been sent my way.  At work, I have one Microsoft Exchange mail
server (med.va.gov) that has been victimized so badly by viruses and
worms that it finally got some serious virus detection capability
installed on it.  That account will send a warning and actually delete
the virus packages it detects in messages sent to me.

Technology -- great when it works, but sometimes it REALLY SUCKS!
Oh well, no one ever caught a virus by talking (or using CW) on a Ham
radio.  We can always resort to that.  ;-)

73 de KB0ZEV