Jason, perhaps one of your emails, sent to one of the lists, is the basis of half the address. ;) Two points: 1) the person may no longer subbed to LEM lists at all. The account these messages was sent to, I no longer use for LEM lists and haven't for a while. 2) the virus makes up a sending address from the infected machines address book and tries to infect other addresses in the same address book by posting it self out to them, strange that the subject line hasn't varied.
When I'm a pc user I take some responsibility for what comes out of the machine, especially if the machine is used in pulic forums such as this. I do not wish to cause embarrassment to the infected machines owner but I do hope all pc users follow some pretty basic security routines to help bolt down their OS and prevent it infecting others. More of the same goes for those IT types who feel updating the OS with security updates is a waste of their time, the patches have been around quite some time before W32 hit the web. There is very little excuse for not applying them. A side note, using yahoo for lists seems to prevent viruses from being downloaded to my pc. If a infected message is on the server my client baulks at downloading messages until I use webmail to delete the offending message. Handy so far but not properly tested. Jason White wrote: >If it's not me, and if I am the only subscriber with a netnitco.net >(netnitco is a small ISP serving NW Indiana; it has about 10 access >numbers), then I'm guessing based on what pickle said above, that whoever >it is has emailed me in the past, probably more just a reply (if I'm in >their address book), and is subscribed to PCI-Powermacs list. > > >J White > >Buy American >S.O.S. Save Our Steel > > > > -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
