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Re: virus?
Thanks, Paul. That may be it, but it's interesting that it picks up names
from the web-based address books. Mostly viruses are designed for Outlook,
or some other Windows based application.
keets
>L. Bird writes:
> > Is anybody else getting in viruses from list members? I've gotten three
>or four so far, but the headers look like they're actually coming from
>somewhere else. It says "multipart1". Does anybody know how this one
>works that it's picking up lister names?
>
>There is an e-mail virus going around called the Klez.H virus that has been
>causing a lot of grief on the internet these days.
>
>Unlike other e-mail viruses that just send a copy of the message to
>everyone in your address book, the Klez.H virus has taken a new "twist".
>It sends the message to one random name in your address book, but here's
>the twist...it re-writes the From: line to another random name in your
>address book.
>
>All mailing lists at igtc.com strip attachments before passing messages on
>to the list as well as converting any HTML to plain text.
>
>For more information on the Klez.H virus, visit:
>
>http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/klez_h.shtml
>
>For more info on the program that igtc.com uses to strip attachments and
>convert HTML to text, visit:
>
>http://www.squawk.com/demime.html
>
>- Paul -
>
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>Maintainer, The Who Mailing List
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