Catherine's comment is right on the mark, Mike. This Gubi person probably has nothing to do with it other than their e-mail address appearing somewhere on the infected machine where the virus program can harvest it for use.
The only proper defense against this sort of thing is to run good antivirus software at all times and try your best to set the options on your e-mail program to not run anything from an attachment without amply warning you. I've made an effort to keep viruses from getting through the list server, but it is certainly not bulletproof. But there is *nothing* I can do to prevent posters to the list being targeted by this kind of virus since every subscriber gets your messages which will contain your e-mail address. Add to that people forwarding stuff, and soon your address will be on thousands of machines, any of which might get infected and target you, or even start masquerading as you. I see a steady stream of bounce and/or warning messages to my various addresses from systems that have been hit by virus generated traffic that appear to be from me or from the list server. There's not a lot anybody can do yet, other than protect themselves and keep their machines clean. Be careful, be well, Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
