Thanks for the update Rick.
Actually Rick, the link that you provided doesn't appear to be complete. I have searched the MSNBC website and found that news article that you referred to at the following webpage: http://www.msnbc.com/news/826033.asp?0dm=C219T To our members, If this link doesn't work for you, got to: www.msnbc.com, place your cursor over the "Tech-Science" link on the left side (a selection window will pop up), on the selection window, place your cursor over the "Hacks, Viruses & Scams" link (a new selection window will pop up), on the new selection window, click on the "Sneaky e-card installs porn 'worm'" link. >From this news article, most anti-virus companies have not decided if this is >a virus or not. So, please read this article for more details about this. Since we admins received only a single member response about these postings, it was assumed that the membership was savvy enough not to click on a link as suspicious as this one was. However, we were just about to post a notice to the group advising not to click on the link in an email message with a subject line with an e-card announcement. We admins were trying to decide if this was an actual virus or not. As these messages were passed through this listserver, I believe these messages themselves did not contain any virus or they would have been rejected by the IEEE's anti-virus software. Also, the member address from where these e-card postings originated has been notified and has been advised to take measures that this will not repeat itself. Hopefully, this will not pose a problem to any member in the future. However, this will continue to be an ever-present problem for all of us. PLEASE NOTE: As a warning to all group members, these types of messages themselves may not contain a virus or other offensive material, which allows them to slip past most anti-virus softwares. But, by clicking on the link(s) inside them, a virus or some other undesireable software might likely be installed into the user's computer without the user's knowledge. We urge and advise all of our members to be aware of such messages and to use caution when presented with such a message AND to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date. Best regards, Ron Pickard EMC-PSTC Administrator email: emc-p...@hypercom.com tel: +602-504-4966 fax: +602-504-4711 owner-emc-pstc@majordo mo.ieee.org To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org cc: 10/25/02 02:49 PM Subject: Recent Virus Attack Info Please respond to rbusche For those of you who received the "e-card" a few days ago on this network, a news article has been posted on MSNBC that explains the problem. If you are interested here is the link. http://www.msnbc.com/news/826033.asp?0na=x22149Z1- ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
