Virus alert

Al wrote:
Over the past 12 hours or so, I received 2 emails with infected attachment
and header "hello." I get this kind of stuff all the time, but this one
comes from an employee of Anacortes

I telephoned Anacortes and gave them a heads up, but anyone who could do
anything to correct was not available at the time. In the event that you
get an email like this, needless to say, don't open it.

Unfortunately, there's not much Anacortes can do about it at all. The
sender need not have any affiliation with Anacortes or the domain name
buytelescopes.com. All that is needed is the ability to forge the name
of the sender in the e-mail message.

Brian Tung
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Unfortunately, there's not much Anacortes can do about it at all. The
sender need not have any affiliation with Anacortes or the domain name
buytelescopes.com. All that is needed is the ability to forge the name
of the sender in the e-mail message.

Which is usually what happens by various viruses. The virus harvests email
addresses from the addressbook of some computer and sends infected messages
to all those addresses. Before doing so it forges the sender's address
putting one of the various addresses it has encountered as a return adress,
so it often becomes impossible to trace the original infected person, as
when the email bounces it returns to people =/= infected sender.

I've had infected emails bouncing back to me, although my computer is
completely clean. Also, you should all be aware that the latest mass email
worms harvest email addresses from newsgroups, so if your correct address
shows up in the newsgroup header, chances are you will be getting hundreds
of infected emails by Swen, at al.

Of course, when those worms try to send ME an infected email, it goes to
Mars :*)))

Brian Tung
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt
--
Ioannis Galidakis
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/jgal/
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Eventually, _everything_ is understandable

I already know that a third party can be the culprit, but I'm just giving
everyone a heads up.

Al


"Brian Tung" wrote in message
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Al wrote:
Over the past 12 hours or so, I received 2 emails with infected
attachment
and header "hello." I get this kind of stuff all the time, but this one
comes from an employee of Anacortes

I telephoned Anacortes and gave them a heads up, but anyone who could do
anything to correct was not available at the time. In the event that
you
get an email like this, needless to say, don't open it.

Unfortunately, there's not much Anacortes can do about it at all. The
sender need not have any affiliation with Anacortes or the domain name
buytelescopes.com. All that is needed is the ability to forge the name
of the sender in the e-mail message.

Brian Tung
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt