Dear List, I have on two occasions received mail from different sources claiming to be offline responses to my posts. These did not originally appear to have an attachment; however, when I tried to open them, an attachment suddenly appears and my virus checker warns me that the letter contains the virus Win32Bandtrans.b. Be very careful opening offline responses! The latest one looked a little odd in that it had "Re:Re:subject" in the subject line.
I have had a passing acquaintance with this virus. It infects your hard drive and takes over your email address book sending itself out to everyone in it. It is quite skilled at making itself look like it is from someone you know. Please check your drives thoroughly with an up to date virus checker and get rid of this virus. Nothing kills the fun of being on a list like having a virus hit all the list members. Oh, by the way, the virus also creates a back door to your system and logs key strokes sending this information, including any passwords you might use, to whomever is behind this virus. Not fun. Whoever has access to the actual server for this list might want to check if the server is infected, too. Oh, yeah! Don't forget to photograph your look of surprise or relief when you find out if you test positive or negative. For best results use your EOS gear!! (an attempt at staying on topic!) Devon Derksen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
