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Re: Welcome to my hometown



Kim is right.  I did not send the message.  First I new of it was when Jim
Hill sent me a message about it.

Cecil



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm@igtc.com>
To: "kim" <kimmalo@mindspring.com>
Cc: "cecil" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Welcome to my hometown


> The mailing list software strips all attachments and converts html to
text.
>
> - Paul -
>
> kim writes:
> > At 06:59 AM 4/29/02 -0700, cecil wrote:
> >
> > Since this came as a totally blank message, without even his usual .sig
I'm
> > assuming cecil didn't send this. In which case people might want to make
> > sure they don't have the klez virus that's currently making the rounds.
As
> > I understand things, it can fake the from address off those in the
address
> > book of an infected computer, so it's not necessarily cecil's computer
> > that's the infected source, just one including his email on it
somewhere.
> > Hopefully the message was blank because the listserv computer scrubbed
off
> > the virus attachment, but the subject IS one of the headers being used
by
> > the virus. For more information about that and the virus in general,
> > see:
> >
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html
> >
> > Now if there was only a virus that we could infect Philly with...
> > Kim