Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica ; virus problems
From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:14:28 -0400 (EDT)

i've also gotten these emails, and my mail client is elm on a NetBSD system 
for personal mail and solaris at work.  so some of these messages
are clearly bogus.

- -rei



> From: Robert Marvin <marvbej@earthlink.net>
> 
> 
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> At 7:31 AM -0700 9/13/02, Gerry Walden wrote:
> This morning I received what appeared to be an automatic notification that I
> had sent a virus (Klez) to somebody. I just want to reassure people that I
> have interactive anti-virus software that scans everything all the time.
> That was updated only yetsreday, and today I have done an additional scan
> and found nothing. I know this is an ongoing problem, but not me folks!
> 
> 
> I've been getting such notifications for a few weeks, usually in the 
> form of allegedly bounced messages from me (actually spurious)which 
> supposedly could not be delivered because they contained a virus. 
> Since I use a Mac, which AFAIK cannot be infected with Klez, I just 
> delete the messages. I know enough not to open the attachments 
> (although I doubt that my Mac would be able to do so if I were 
> foolish enough to try). The notifications always have addresses of 
> LUGers, so I presume some dimwitted hacker (probably a N***n or C***n 
> user) is playing a 'joke' on many of us, subject to the limitations 
> of his rather feeble imagination.
> 
> Bob Marvin
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey

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