The part that is most disconcerting is the .com extension. Maybe
it won't hit a Linux or Apple based OS now, but it might in the
future. I saw a message from either Sunday or Monday with the
"check the pictures from my party" and it wasn't from a person I
knew. I was tempted to open it, but wentwith my gut feeling and
deleted it. I suppose the best test would be to delete a message
like that and then reply to the person looking for a confirmation
of the prior post and a request to resend if it was real.
Bottom line is to go with a gut feeling.
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
Copyright 2002, Matthew D. Murray.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dahl" <adahl@eskimo.com>
To: "Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: New worm spoils the party, was: "Party" is no fun
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Matt Murray wrote:
> > Here's a write up that describes just how insidious this
> > particular worm is. [description of virus deleted]
>
> Thankfully this virus will not affect Apple Macintosh computers
(OS9 or
> OSX) like my iMac but I'd like to remind Mac owners that they
should
> still be careful not to reply or forward "party" messages to PC
friends
> lest they pass on the virus.
>
> I guess this virus must not be too common as I have yet to
receive one.
> Hopefully the outbreak will be rather limited, I still see that
there
> are computers infected with the Code Red virus even now when I
check my
> firewall log.
>
> - Alan
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