the pickle wrote:
> Someone is subbed to this list on a Windoze box.
> The above e-mail address is in the person's address book.
No, the address is made up of parts. The address itself is nonexistent.
> The Windoze box is infected with one of those nasty Win32 virii that sends out
> copies of itself to every single person in the address book, and then fakes the
> reply-to field and from fields with other entries from the address book.
Hmm, not really but sort of.
The Win32 virii take advantage of a hole in Explorers mime types. The hole being
that email is treated as .html and is opened when selected, the virus is a
encoded .exe in the .html so it is run when the email or web page is opened. I
say web page because you can get these surfing.
> Nothing to worry about, but at the same time, if you're on this list and have a
> Windoze box, RUN YOUR FREAKING VIRUS PROTECTION.
This particular hole was patched quite some time ago, listed as a critical
update when using auto update.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp>
For a good explanation and service packs. You could also turn off the auto
attachment file download. :)
Virex(6.2) wont protect your wintel box, at best its a "after the horse has
bolted" virus checker. Quite a few goodish pc virus checkers for nix out there.
Better pc checkers are much more transparent to the system and give better lan
protection, I'd still use a mac program on a mac, to be sure.
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