Moderator note - viruses

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi All,

I, and apparently others, have noted a few virus being sent "apparently"
from list members.

It seems too wide spread and "odd" to be a "real" virus.  

What I am concerned about is some "bad" person my be trying to cause us
trouble and is sending viruses trying to make them appear to be from other
lists members.

If you get a virus sent to you apparently from someone on the list, I would
love for you to forward the full header information to me here at:

twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net

With the full original header information (cut and paste).  It is simple to
track down the "real" sender of the mails and "clean their clock" ;-))  I
really don't need you to forward the virus attachments :o))  but I'll
figure it all out.  Send a little note too explaining that you are sending
it to me to help track down what is going on. 

Apparently, a few appear to be from "twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net".  That computer
spends 95% of the time with the network cards disabled so the possibility
of a "third party sender" is high.  I'll check the virus scanners too but I
don't store list member info at all here so I don't know where it could get
the addresses.  But the addresses seem to be very common ones...


Of course, the Tesla list itself only sends pure ASCII text out and never
sends file attachments any kind.  If you ever do see a file attachment from
or "apparently from" the Tesla list, assume it is a virus.  However, this
thing appears to be going on "behind the scenes".

Cheers,

	Terry