[MacDV] Re: Just Curious

[Matthew Guemple]

The point would be is there anything we can do about it? It seems to  
come through the list...

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 04:27 PM, David Thrasher wrote:

> 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
>
> David Thrasher
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