Re: [Auth]Somebody on this list has an e-mail worm -- please scan your systems if you use an MS mail client.

[David Sugar]

While I have never received any of those infamous solecitius emails last
year, I still find many people continue to have the need to share their
most intimate files with me, and now this.  I can setup a procmail filter
to kill this, but I still have to go through the trouble of receiving and
processing mail I never wish to read.  It is unfortunate that a
proprietary software manufacturer has refuse to acknowledge or repair what
clearly is a fundimental design flaw in their software or to give their
users the freedom to fix this on their own. 

David

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>       As the current list-admin, I get to filter non-member mail from this
> list.  I believe that somebody on this list who uses an MS mail client
> (Outlook or Outlook express most likely) has contracted a Klez style
> e-mail worm that massmails to people in your address book from others in
> your address book.  If you use an MS mail client, I request that you
> scan your hard drive with an up to date virus scanner.  It's a pain in
> the *** to reject dozens of worm traffic e-mails.  It is possible that
> it could be nobody on this list, becuase the latest versions of klez can
> get e-mail addresses from web pages.  However, please scan your system
> just in case, thanks.
> 
> (Obviously, if you're using a GNU/Linux mail client - you don't really
> have to worry much. :) )
> 
>       -Barry
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