Re: virus?

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm@igtc.com>]

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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