From ptrourke@mediaone.net Mon Mar 6 13:54:25 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA41730 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:54:23 -0800 Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA09314 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:54:22 -0800 Received: from ptr ([207.60.132.195]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17279; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:54:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000901bf87b6$f1dc2f80$c3843ccf@psicorp.com> From: "P. T. Rourke" To: "History of the Ancient Mediterranean" Cc: References: <20000306210013.6E60A10FD@athena.louisville.edu> Subject: Virus Alert Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:57:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 [apologies for crossposting ... this just to prevent too much complaint against DM] Doesn't really matter if he has. My understanding is that it doesn't attach itself to messages you send out, it creates its own message and picks everyone in your Outlook Express mailbox as recipients. What's worse, some versions of Outlook Express automatically open attachments of certain mime types, which means that you can be infected and pass it along without even knowing it. One way to protect yourself from picking something like this up through a mailing list is to use the digest command on a given list and choose the no-mime option. You get a single big ASCII file with garbage instead of attachments. Of course, the best thing to do is to buy an antivirus program and keep it up to day. Patrick Rourke, who gets three messages a day directly from David but somehow didn't get attacked. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Severson" Subject: Re: Virus Alert > Did you get it off of your computer before you sent this message? > From: David Meadows > Subject: Virus Alert > > [apologies for crossposting ... you wouldn't believe how many lists I feel > > morally-bound to send this to] > > Greetings, > > This morning I finally connected long enough to my ISP to update my virus > > definitions for Norton antivirus and I was greatly dismayed to discover > > that I had been infected with the W32.Plage.Worm. .