Re: [Thinkpad] virus spam - ignore it.

I'd forgotten that my ISP said it was the Beagle virus and gave us a link to
Symantec's page, which contains a removal tool link.

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.k@mm.html

Deanna
dberman@4dv.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "elijah wright" <elw@stderr.org>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 09:11 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] virus spam - ignore it.

>
> hi,
>
> everyone seems to have noticed that listmembers got hit with some
> virus-spam today. not much i can do about it, i think, at this point...
> did any of it actually come through ON the list, or was it just sent to
> you individually from what appears to be a list address? thanks in
> advance for any information (especially full copies of headers from the
> the virusmail itself) that you can provide.
>
> > > We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer
> > > may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account
> > > safe, please, follow the instructions.
> >
> > HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. I see the subtle and humorous irony in the email.
> > By the way, does our real mailing list admin have such a horrendous
> > grasp of the English language? Man, these worm writers just don't read
> > too much real work email, eh? Bad script kiddies. No AOL for you!
>
> nah, the real list admin has a graduate degree in english. :)
>
> --elijah
>

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