Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've mailed Tony and had a reply from him, so he's aware of the problem. Hopefully, he can clean his system up. Mark - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Painter" <dennis@hale-pohaku.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: 30 November 2001 16:21 Subject: Re: [Leica] Badtrans virus alert! > To All: > > > It is a worm. My info came from here: > > http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html > > The computer Tony Salce uses has it. (hopefully had it) as I also got a badtrans > mailing from him. The worm prepends a _ to the return address to prevent replies > from being received. I removed the _ from the return address and emailed Tony. As > yet no reply from him. > > Get Zone Alarm, get a good virus program and keep the virus database up to date. > Otherwise it is only a matter of time before your computer is infected and the > effect can be costly in your time. > > Dennis > > > John Collier wrote: > > > I have been getting it from a variety of Leica-Users over the last week. I > > was not sure it was a virus because my Mac just shows a blank email with a > > small triangle in the top left corner. The senders email address has a "_" > > added to the front of it. > > > > John Collier > > > > > From: "Mark Pope" <mark.teampope@ntlworld.com> > > > > > > my AV software has just alerted me to a file with the Badtrans virus. I > > > think that it may have come from someone called Tony Salce. Apologies to > > > Tony if this isn't actually the case. Thank goodness for Norton Anti-Virus! > > > > > > > -- > > 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