[JA] Bugbear is baaaack!
- From: carolynstoffel@xxxxxxxx
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:45:50 EDT
Jim -
>Why reply to virus messages? Safer, if they are from known people, to
>send a separate message, not a reply.
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To let the person know about the problem. Because "edit, cut, paste"
doesn't put the > quote symbol in. Given the overlap in participants
between the lists I'm on, I can't tell which list it "came from", so
there's little point in warning the lists.
>If they are from strangers, >safer >to delete and ignore.
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Of course, but that's rare. Those are almost always spam.
Except one yesterday(?) from a name I didn't recognize, from a Juno
address, which I sent (not the whole thing - headers down to attached
filename) to Brian to see if the person was a lurker on the list.
>How do you know a message contains a virus, without knowing which >virus
>it is?
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I'm using 1.49. The old anti-virus program on this system doesn't check
email. Given my archaic set-up, I don't worry about viruses any more -
"they" are after newer systems. So I really don't care which virus it is.
I just ass-u-me that it's the latest one.
Identifying one? Depending on the virus, a "silly" private message from a
recognized name with all kinds of heiroglyphics as an attachment which is
identified as an .exe, .gif, or .jpg file.
One recent one, if I hit reply, started the email address with an
underline character. Immediate identification as a virus/worm/Trojan/what
have you.
While I don't know everyone's email address offhand (and some people have
more than one, of course), the email address sometimes "looks wrong",
like the one I reported that was half a list address. Individuals don't
have that address - I'd be .very. suspicious if I saw your name with a
freelists.org address which is about what happened the other day.
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