Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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> > > > -- > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html