[MacDV] Re: Just Curious

[Jeff Fay]

Well...you could do what I do.....delete the message and go on with your 
life. I suppose you could create a filter to do it for you if the 
messages are of a consistent form.

Jeff

Matthew Guemple wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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