> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > This message is to inform you that Nick's Brin-L > service has just dumped > an infected message send by Deborah's machine, on > the brin-l list. > Just to warn the list. And to Nick and Deborah I'd > want to suggest that > they upgrade their virus protection a notch or two. > :o) > > Infected message was send by > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject of Re: Excel file > and contained the virus: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I turned my computer on today approx. 50 minutes ago, so I don't see how my machine could be have sent the message (it appears to have started early this AM), so I checked with the office computer guy. He looked and said our firewall hadn't been breached, but mentioned something about "spoofing" WRT the appearance of 'me' having sent this. FWIW, the same message/vrus wound up in my yahoo bulk mail, as well as another one 'letter,' _also_ from 'my' yahoo address. I don't log onto my Yahoo account except from the office and rarely the public library (not in the past couple of months), and my actual office email address has also apparently not be forged/used, nor my Hotmail account. I'm not trying to be defensive*, but I do make an effort to avoid computer virus infection, and have never opened any unexpected/verified attachments (according to our tech, even if I did attempt to open an 'infected' attachment, the system would shut me out or delete the virus before I could open it). * But I _am_ really angry about this. It's like somebody making nasty prank calls and somehow having the trace forged back to you. I don't know about the List address book, but anyone can access our archives (a couple of us have in fact gotten emails from people not on the List at all, but who in googling for something found our posts on particular subjects). Debbi who now feels like she needs a virtual bath >:( __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
