[JA] Dummie question on virus/worm
- From: outtolaunch@xxxxxxxx
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:34:18 -0400
Hi,
I've been getting some scary messages lately. They appear to be
from various rootsweb lists, displaying the list prepend --- like [JA]
---
in the subject line. I do genealogy, and subscribe to several rootsweb
lists,
so am likely to want to read such a message. There give no sign (that
I can spot) of being spam until it is too late.
When I open one of these messages, I see a small part of a
an appropriate message. The header reveals that the message is to
"undisclosed recipients" rather than to the list. This appears to be
some sort of virus/worm taking a list message from the victim's mail
and sending itself with the title and part of the content. As I try to
view
the message, up pops the Windoze symbol that something is
downloading --- pages flipping to a folder --- along with an error
message about the download.
The dummie question is: If I'm NOT online at the time, can
anything be downloading? Post-deletion virus scans come up
clean so far, but....
Thanks,
Peggy
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