My anti-virus software blocked the attachment that came from Andy Draper
(email address ANDY@kaon.co.nz) The subject was R: Europa_mail Speed Kit and
was addressed to undisclosed-recipients:
As far as I can see it didn't come from the Europa Forum site or have
anything which connected it with the forum other than the Subject Line.
Something funny going on, or not if your ant-virus software doesn't catch
it!
Alan
#303
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Saitta, AIA Principal" <saitta@netmagic.net>
Subject: Re: VWarning: forum messages containing a virus
>
>
> John Cliff wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The forum this morning has six stalled messages containing the offending
file,
> > four of them (allegedly) from forum subscribers and two from 'spammers'.
None
> > of them has been distributed to subscribers, as far as I know.
>
> I received two this morning, which were promptly nuked by Dr. Norton, so
something
> is getting trough to some of us.
>
> Peter
>
> > I certainly
> > haven't had them. If you have posted a message in the last 2 days which
hasn't
> > appeared, a virus scan on your system would be a wise precaution. There
seems
> > to be genuine content in several of these, which wouldn't happen in a
random
> > post by a third party.
> >
> > The forum is intended to preclude the distribution of attachments (and I
haven't
> > seen any sent over it for a long time), precisely to prevent viruses
being sent
> > to you in this way.
> >
> > The mechanism suggested by Jeremy, whereby both target and apparent
'sender' are
> > selected from the address book on an infected machine, seems quite
likely. In
> > the past such messages have been sent to people purporting to come from
me.
> >
> > Let us hope this tiresome virus soon fades from view.
> >
> > John Cliff
> > Europa Forum minder
> >
>
>
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