[MacDV] Just Curious

[Jeff Fay]

David-

What you are recieving is the result of a virus on someone's Windows 
machine that has the list serve address on it. Once the machine is 
infected, the virus searches the machine for email addresses and then 
sends out emails to those addresses with the virus attached to the 
message. The .exe files that are attached contain the virus.

I don't imagine "a real moron" is involved as the machine and not the 
individual sends out these emails, usually without the knowledge of the 
individual. The only moronic thing these folks have done is to first buy 
a Windows machine, second not keep their anti-virus software updated and 
third use Microsoft Outlook, the most security hole-filled email client 
on the planet.

Luckily, as Mac users we can just laugh maniacally as we send these 
virus-laden emails to the trash because they don't affect us (and, with 
any luck, they never will).

Jeff

David Thrasher wrote:

>I've been getting e-mails occasionally where someone has grabbed the e-mail address of someone off this list for the Reply To address, snagged a subject line, inserted a snippet of text from one of the messages and included a file attachment. It's always had the same name (can't recall it right now) and has ended in either ".exe" or ".scr". Whoever is doing it is trying to send a virus but apparently is also a real moron since Windows executables and screensavers won't even operate on a Mac. All I can do is just laugh at them. What's next? - the torture of the comfy chair?
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>-Dave
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