I received a copy of Brad's apology- no real problem., I was just blocking
in case his machine was infected...
All I know is that when I hit the reply all button for this message, that
the contact list wiped. It may be that this was received in a non-list
e-mail at some time in the past, which I deleted based on the subject
heading(I always delete those spam's- if I don't know the sender, I don't
open them...)
I wonder if the virus left a dormant larvae which triggered when I did a
reply all to its original subject line, despite the fact I deleted,
unopened, the original message... Somebody might have a real cute one
here...
I ran Norton AntiVirus, and it came back clean,. My address book itself was
unaffected- just the window display of my contact list deleted. No real harm
I guess- I usually just type the names in anyway!
BTW- I run OE because I like it, the same reason I own a Triumph, so don't
blame me for being a target of some brain injured simpleton who enjoys the
feeling of power he gets by sabotage of other's machines. That is like the
rapist blaming the victim.
Have a good one,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
To: "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@comcast.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>;
"Bradley D Richardson" <bradrichardson@juno.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: Superwealth may be SUPER VIRUS
> Scott :
>
> First, it's impossible to get a virus through the Team.Net lists, because
> they block all attachments, HTML, VB, etc. They send only plain text
which
> cannot contain a virus (well, except the 'Polish' virus <g>).
>
> Second, there are some very smart viruses running around, and it's easy to
> fake the sender's address on email. There's a good chance that the virus
> you received didn't even come from Bradley's machine. Smart viruses also
> change the subject line (and message contents), so it's likely the next
copy
> won't even say "Superwealth" on it.
>
> And of course if you weren't using Outlook Express, you'd be a much
smaller
> target for this sort of thing...
>
> Randall
>
> >
> > I just received an email on Spitfires@autox.team.net from Bradley
> > Richardson about "Superwealth" I opened it as it came from the
> > Spitfire list, and I figured it must be Spitfire related. It
> > turns out it was an ad for something- I hit the "Reply All"
> > button, to send a note about inappropriatness of the subject
> > matter, and it wiped out my contact list! I have a distinct
> > impression this e-mail is actually a self perpetuating virus,
> > which abducts your contact list, and sends itself out again. I
> > highly recommend if you see "Superwealth" that you should delete
> > it unopened.
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