Virused (wormed) "party" message from Aroid-L

Aroiders,

As many (many, many) of you have noticed, the posting from Alan earlier
today was actually not from Alan but rather a worm using Alan's computer.
Alan of course figured this out slightly later, and immediately sent
another note to the list to warn people. Alan's note said, in part:

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Folks,
It appears that my laptop has received a new email virus earlier this
afternoon.  It also appears to have sent this virus onto everyone in
my address book.
I have my antivirus software to get updates once a week and apparently
the timing was such that this virus hit me before I got the necessary
updated virus definitions.  Needless to say, I now have set my
antivirus software to get daily updates.

My apologies for any trouble this may have caused anyone.
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Alan also included some web references to help anyone who may have seen
the warning too late or whose AV software let it get through. I will post
his message momentarily.

Bad timing contributed to the problem - I haven't read Aroid-L traffic for
several days. Due to network problems, Don was offline this evening (and
still is, as I write this); he alerted me by phone, I just got home and am
sorting through the accumulated responses from all the virus scanners out
there that - fortunately - caught this.

We apologize for missing this, as we normally don't allow attachments to
go out on Aroid-L (and this is one of several reasons why). The list
processor itself has no automatic facilities to do this for us, so it's a
human-driven process, and therefore prone to error.

Normal, un-virused traffic will resume shortly. In the interest of
avoiding duplicated information, we'll not post messages warning about the
virus unless then contain unique information.

Steve

-- Steve Marak
-- samarak@arachne.uark.edu
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