Re: virused attachment sent
- Subject: Re: virused attachment sent
- From: T*
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 19:17:56 -0400
Sat, Jul 6, 2002 3:23 PM voltaire@islandnet.com Diane Whitehead said:
>I have just received error messages from two medit subscribers' ISPs,
>that a virus- containing attachment sent from medit-plants has been
>intercepted. I haven't received a message with an attachment, and
>neither has the archive. The error messages did not mention the
>Subject line of the message, so I can just advise you to be alert and
>delete any attachment before opening, in case your server passes it
>on to you. It is one I haven't heard of before:
Seems to me that mail lists that allow attachments are looking for trouble.
However, some of these viruses send messages to everyone in the host
computers' address books and even indicate that some of those addresses
were the sending addresses. Just because an ISP says it came from an
address doesn't mean that it really did.
Tom Miller
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