Re: SB: Virus/Worm safeguards (OT)

[Strawbale List Administrator <strawbale-owner@crest.org>]

You may actually not be the one with the virus.  The KLEZ virus that has
been posted to the list several times lately masquerades as coming from
people in your address book.  So, if you were infected, to the casual
observer, it would look like you sent the virus.  When one looks closer,
someone else is infected,  but they have your Email in their address book.
The virus does this.  It picks one address to send to, and another to put
in the "From" line, none of which are the person who is infected.

Upon very close examination, and with a copy of the strawbale subscribers
list (which I have) I can narrow down the "culprit" (who is also an
innocent victim here) to all those people with the same ISP as  the ISP
where the Email came from.  However, if you are a technophobe, you
probably do not have the desire to track this down.

If your latest version of McAfee says you do not have a virus, then you
are probably a collateral casualty, not the culprit/victim.

dion

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Dion Hollenbeck
Strawbale List Sitter
strawbale-owner@crest.org


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jo Wilhelm wrote:

> OK, Rob, please remember there are a lot of real technophobics out here.
>
> So, (after spending a month getting my system over a virus) I bought
> another CPU and put my internet access on it, away from my business
> files. Since I connect to Juno with modem only (not over the internet)
> and I cannot get or send attachments, I thought I had sufficiently
> protected myself-- and all of you.
>
> BUT I recently got an email from ANTIGEN (whoever or whatever that is),
> to which I cannot reply, that says I had a virus. I did run the latest
> McAffee and it says I don't. Got any advice for me???
>
> JoMaMa
>
> Jo Wilhelm
> home_place@juno.com   830/868-7077 www.the-home-place.com
> Tours, workshops, seminars and speakers are all available from THE HOME
> PLACE-
> A sustainable living demonstration center in the hill country of central
> Texas.


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