My ISP detected the virus and deleted the message. They sent me a note
to let me know.
Mike
Peter Scott wrote:
>
> At 04:39 PM 8/8/01 -0500, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 wrote:
> >this explains a lot.
> >
> >only in Windows ... ;)
>
> It's the Sircam virus. I've received variants of this message 10-20 times
> a day for the last 5 days. The person who sent it wouldn't have known it
> was being sent to begin with and probably hasn't even heard of Perl
> Beginners (it does address harvesting somehow; I got spammed at old
> addresses). It selects a document at random from the system to send, but
> doesn't always embed the virus. It's sheer coincidence that this one
> happened to find a document with a name that sounds relevant to this list.
>
> This has been the most annoying virus for me because of the
> spam. Hopefully it will not result in a deluge on this list.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Matthew Peter Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:34 PM
> >To: Sharon Carter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Hit counters
> >
> >
> >this is a virus. don't open it.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sharon Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:58 PM
> >Subject: Hit counters
> >
> >
>
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