Re: warning -- email virus attack.

[Tim Pierce]

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:12:39PM -0300, Mika Tuupola wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> 
> > Any user of the mail lists found to be propogating this virus will be 
> > removed to protect all of our other users - if you are infected, you 
>       
>       Of course this worm can spread through your mailinglist 
>       _only_ if you allow attachments. Strip them out and the
>       mailinglist is safe.

The worm is mailed privately to each person who posts to the list,
i.e. the address that shows up in the "From" header.  An infected
person who subscribes to the list will infect each person who posts,
but the worm is never posted to the list itself.

-- 
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer