[Swan] Virus?

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:23:39 -0500

Guys:

The new "party picture" virus has hit many, many people in just one day.
It's turned out to be about as big a deal as the "I Love You" virus.  It
works by sending itself to people found in the Outlook address book. We
shouldn't blame the reflector, or its administrator.  It's so new that
several virus protection programs don't see it...
73,
Brad, NB9M

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Jerry Kincade
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 22:07
To: George Griesbach; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Swan] Virus?

I got 12 of these, too, all from the Swan list, all in about a 5 minute
burst about half an hour ago. Apparently the actual virus is contained in a
photo attachment of some sort, which my Norton 2002 trapped and
automatically deleted, so no harm done here, other than the inconvenience of
waiting a minute or two while Norton scrubbed 12 viruses in a row. I, too,
am surprised that (a) an attachment of ANY kind was distributed by the list
server, and (b) that even if was distributed, it wasn't scrubbed for viruses
by the server. Even my Norton 2002 scrubs every outgoing email I send to be
sure it's clean before it's actually transmitted. Guess I'll unsubscribe
from Swan if this is going to be an ongoing thing.
73, Jerry W5KP

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Griesbach" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: [Swan] Virus?

> How can a virus get by your server?, I thought Mailman took care of all
> that. Is this new virus an attachment or is it just in the body of an
email?
> And if it was an attachment how come you opened it?
> Thank You,
> George R. Griesbach
> 505 River Oaks Rd.
> Comfort, Texas, 78013
> [email protected]
> www.comforttexas.com
> W5GRG
>
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