Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phong, Virus did not have to come from you. Follow this: someone, me for example, gets email from you. My computer has a virus. The virus goes into my mailbox and picks a user id, say yours for example. It then mails itself to everyone in my machine so everyone thinks they got an email with a virus from Phong, not me. Those without protection get infected and the chain continues on and on and on. You, in the meantime, get a ton of email from a) antivirus programs that do an autosend telling the 'sender' about the virus, and b) people that get the message and assume it came from you. You then sit there scratching your head wondering what is going on. I am very familiar with this particular deal because someone with my address in their machine has a virus and this is exactly what happened. I ran both Norton and MacAfee and came up clean, plus at the same time I was upgrading from Windows ME (possibly the worst operating system Microsoft ever foisted off on the public) with XP Pro and did a reformat of my drive and a clean install. Bill - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Phong Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:43 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Virus in Phong Message You guys have me so paranoid, I rescanned all of my computers using Norton AntiVirus 2003, and they showed up clean. I am not saying that the infected message could not come from me. - - Phong - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Don R. Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:11 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Virus in Phong Message My Norton AntiVirus package gave me the same indication. Whether that was a false signal I do not know. However, I quit saying "never" and "impossible' a long time ago regarding computers, the Internet and bright people who like to play tricks on others. Don R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Virus in Phong Message > My apologies. I did not realize that our communication was to be based > on the fact you were looking for confirmation rather than explanation. > > For the rest of the list I REPEAT, it is not possible to send a virus > via the Leica-Users. > > John Collier > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:26 AM, grduprey@rockwellcollins.com > wrote: > > > > > The system here at work caught it and said it was attached to Phong's > > message as an attachment to his main text. Since I have only those on > > the > > LUG as possible sources in common with him, it must have somehow been > > attached to his message and made it through the LUG system. Since our > > system caught and isolated it I don't care at this point. > > > > Gene > > > > > > > > > > John Collier > > <jbcollier@shaw.ca> To: > > leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Sent by: cc: > > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: > > Re: [Leica] Virus in Phong Message > > -alto.ca.us > > > > > > 06/09/2003 09:26 PM > > Please respond to > > leica-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is not possible to send a virus through the Leica-Users' server. > > Only plain text messages without attachments are passed on. Everything > > else does not get through. It is probably an email from somewhere else > > with a fake sender. I get them occasionally and once or twice the fake > > sender was The Brian himself! > > > > John Collier > > > > On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Dan C wrote: > > > >> Was the message from Phong sent to the LUG, or to you personally? I > >> have > >> received no messages frpm Phong which contained any attachment. > >> > >> dan c. > >> > >> At 12:57 PM 09-06-03 -0500, Don R. wrote: > >>> My Norton AntiVirus says there is a virus in Phong's message so > >>> better be > >>> careful. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html