Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fwd: Virus warning
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:47:10 -0700
References: <200005041524.IAA00705@riverside.haddockseyes.com> <4.3.1.2.20000504094615.00d8b9e0@riverside.reid.org>
 
This is a good one to be cautious about. Besides jamming mail servers like a
rat in drainpipe (like last year's Melissa virus), it also has a taste for
audio (.mp2, .mp3) files and graphics (.jpg and .jpeg) files on your hard
drive. Cnet News reported that a "large publishing house" lost its complete
photo archive to the bugger this morning.

I had a half dozen infected messages on my work account this morning.
However, since I know that no one really loves me, I deleted them without
even opening them.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fwd: Virus warning


> Just me being cautious. Until I have had a chance to see the virus or to
> read an authoritative description of its nature, I'm making the
> block-filters a little tighter than they need to be. In the 2 hours since
I
> wrote that, the big-3 antivirus companies have all issued statements about
> this virus, and I think I can back off a little now that I know more about
it.
>
>