Re: Possible Virus?

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

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

Hi Chris,

As always, assume any attachments "from" the Tesla list are viruses.

The Tesla list never sends out file attachments of any kind.  Only plain 
ASCII text is sent (no html).

Many viruses fake the sending address so they may "appear" to be from 
someone you know.  They typically ask you to run some file attachment or 
send them your credit card numbers...

Delete any file attachment "from" the Tesla list.  It is for sure a virus 
that is faking the pupman address.

It is unlikely the servers themselves would be affected and we do monitor 
for that.  We seem fine here.

I also got a bunch of attachment related to canceling accounts or what ever 
the latest stupid virus is here, but they just get trashed along with the 
rest of the junk this popular address collects.  If it does not "sound 
right" it isn't...

And the former queen of Nigeria still has not sent me that $25,000,000 ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry


At 01:52 PM 8/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I just recieved an email from the server that responds to a request for 
>submission to this list. The message also had an attachment on it. I was 
>tempted to open it when I realized that the subject was the same as many 
>other spams I have also recieved, all with the same type of attachment. I 
>didn't read it for fear that the virus that is going around may have 
>infected the server. I'm not entirely sure whether or not the message was 
>benign or not, so I wanted to ask and find out. Has anybody else recieved 
>any message like this? Terry, have you taken a look at that server 
>recently? Just a heads-up for everybody else.
>
>
>-Chris