Just Curious

[David Thrasher]

Oh, I wasn't talking about any unwitting carrier of the virus. I was talking about the individual originally responsible for sending it out. It just appeared from the way the messages were constructed that some Windows bigot was trying to use our list to cause trouble for us and I thought if this were the case then they must be truly clueless to expect a Windows virus to cause up any trouble. I forgot about the possibility of it being automated - which goes to show you how dumb machines really are once you think about it. It also explains that Windows XP newsletter someone keeps e-mailing me as though I'd be interested in that.

-Dave

Original message:

Message-ID: <3EFB8F9B.7090301 at uaf.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:28:11 -0800
From: Jeff Fay 
Subject: [MacDV] Re: Just Curious

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

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