I came home from vacation to a lot of email messages, mostly from Nsp. I opened the prayerbone message and many others - the words were scrambled, some messages empty and the addresses wrong. The computer seems to have unwound itself from the glitch but there are other strange quirks happening and a note that someone had been trying to get into it. Alert! I didn't notice that it was caused by opening 'prayerbone'. Catherine Scott Colin wrote:
I too thought it a little odd but my PC didn't do anything and, looking at the "message properties", I can't see anything unusual etc in it. I am hoping that it was a typo in the subject line and they actually wanted to leave the list but "prayerbone" is an odd username and not many of us bother with them now (probably far to vain to hide behind a false name <grin>). My security stuff didn't find anything but please let us know your results and, if genuine, could prayerbone please post and let us know as they may still be on the list. Colin Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Heard" [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [2]<nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: [NSP] Beware of the 'prayerbone' message! H all, The message from 'prayerbone', sent from an 'aol address may be spurious. When I clicked to open it, there was a pause, then it opened. There was nothing in the message itself, but at as it opened I heard my hard drive begin to work. It may be an innocent but failed communiaction from a genuine member - in which case my apologies to 'prayerbone' -but it may carry something which might attack your computer. I am now going to run my whole suite of protection software! Richard Heard -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
