To all, As I have just returned to my desk from a long Monday morning of internal discussions and meetings, I was shocked to see this string, and especially that I was being assumed to be the culprit in this matter. However, being diligent, I've looked into my sent folder and found that I've sent only 4 email messages this morning, and they were all addressed to internal recipients. I am at a complete loss as to how this could have happened because [1]I did not send any such email, [2]I am more respectful that that, and [3]our corporate antivirus and spam filtering server is top-rate and is updated regularly and often.
In the interest of determining whether or not the email in question originated >from Hypercom, I have requested our IT people to investigate it and to let me know what they find out. If they find anything, I will let the other admins know. And, as Rich stated, I believe that the cause was that my email address was probably hijacked somewhere/somehow. Next, I want to apologize for whatever anxiety this may have caused to the membership. But, it is important to state that, in fact, I did not send the email in question and would never send such an email for any reason. Also, I find any email that has no title, no message and had an attachment (identifiable or not) highly suspicious and immediately delete it. Best regards, Ron Pickard [email protected] [email protected] To: [email protected] 08/09/2004 12:23 cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], PM [email protected] Subject: Re: Security Problem? Hi Bob: > I am not sure if this is a problem or not. The mail from RPickard > [[email protected]] came with no title, no message and an attachment > with an unidentifiable extension. It apparently did not set off virus alarms > in either my Norton antivirus or the IEEE filters, but I will not be opening > it without further information. Attachments violate the IEEE list rules. We're looking into it. Since Ron Pickard is one of administrators, we are a bit embarrassed on this posting. I'm quite sure that Ron did not deliberately send this message, which suggests that a virus sent the message. The IEEE filters have been VERY GOOD at filtering out viruses. The IEEE filters have caught many viruses, and, thus far, have not let one through. I'm pleased to hear that your Norton antivirus did not detect a virus, as that confirms the effectiveness of the IEEE antivirus filters. Attachments violate the emc-pstc rules, not the IEEE listserver rules. The Listserver will forward attachments of less than 100K, although we don't tell anyone. Best regards, Rich
