> I just now received a virus sent to me privately from a person whose name I do not recognize, although his name does seem somewhat familiar to me.
> This virus was identified by F-PROT as W32/Badtrans.B@mm. > It was not flagged as a virus when scanned by virus definition files dated 22 September 2001. The older virus definition files could identify only the old version of Badtrans. You must have the latest virus definition updates in order to catch up with the New Improved Badtrans. > Sam Heywood I don't think this virus does anything in DOS. So you're safe, and so am I. There has been an epidemic of this virus among members of an aromatherapy list, many of whom use Outlook Express with its house-of-cards security. I received two messages containing what appeared likely to be the New Improved Badtrans, which I saw as base64 code and declined to decode. I noticed _ prepended to the From-address, thus in the extremely unlikely event that such a message came from you, the From: line would look like From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So when I reply to tell them they have a virus, I edit out this leading underscore.
