I have a standing policy to completely destroy any attachments that arrive
unsolicited, no matter WHO they're from. That goes for .exe and .doc files
especially. I delete 'em, the delete 'em from the delete folder. I've
avoided about 3 confirmed viruses in the past year this way.
Best wishes,
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: Virus warning (yeah I know, but this ones real)
>
> I don't usually send this stuff out, but this one affected me (indirectly)
> This one is NOT a hoax. Many of the computers here at work were affected
> with this virus (not somebody that somebody knew that told me etc.) The
> computer next to my cubical here at work had it's hard drive windows exe
> files trashed among several others - It's a variation of the Trojan worm
> with the filename IROC.EXE. it comes with a note saying something to the
> effect of here's a neat little Star Trek screen saver. if executed from
> your e-mail program, It finds your mailing list(s) and sends itself out to
> (in this case the first 60 people on the global list that it found) and I
> was one of the recipients, but saved it to disk instead of opening it.
> Others here were not so lucky. As with anything sent via E-MAIL do NOT
> open any executable (*.exe) files unless you have VERIFIED that (A) it
came
> from someone you trust (and that means e-mailing them back and asking if
> they actually sent, and used it), or (B) saving it to a disk, then scan it
> first with a virus checking program. While it may not catch all of them,
> it sure beats having most or all your files destroyed. Most people here
at
> work "assumed" that because it was sent by somebody they knew at work,
and,
> that "it was already checked" that it was alright. It just goes to show
> the importance of verifying things sent via e-mail that you aren't
entirely
> sure about. At work they use NAV for checking this stuff, but apparently
> this one is too new and they didn't have it updated to scan for this
> particular strain of this virus-
> Makes you wonder abut these lowlife pond scum that have nothing better to
> do than destroy other peoples property, and think it's a big joke -
> Oh well, just thought I'd pass the info along for what it's worth - if it
> saves somebody this grief then it's worth the bandwidth and slight
> inconvenience of having to read this, at least in my opinion -
> Geeze, the guy next to me gets a three day weekend, humm. . . maybe I
> should have opened that file after all :-)
>
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (long term project)
>
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