Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:13:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Oops, I guess it would help to read your whole note. I see that you have it under control. BTW this virus hit me WITHOUT opening any attachments. It was imbedded in the e-mail itself. They ate getting more sophisticated! Greg Downing ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Saunders" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] VIRUS ALERT!! > Mike Bowen writes: > > > As I guess all MDOspreyers did, I received this message from Greg > > Downing. > > > > Should I be concerned about it? I use McAfee VirusScan but my virus > > definitions are about 3 months old. > > > > Mike (and MDOsprey), > > The virus-laden messages (of which I have received 5 myself yesterday and > today) did *NOT* go out via MDOsprey. There are safeguards in place that > keep messages like that from being distributed via the Listserv. What > happened was that Greg Downing had a virus on HIS machine which located all > of the e-mail addresses stored in HIS e-mail software. The virus used that > list to send out the messages to folks on the web. > > I urge everyone--do not ever trust e-mails with attachments unless they come > from someone you know, trust, and are expecting something from. It is > better to delete a message without opening it and then drop a note to the > person it was from. They can always resend if it was legitimate. > > Also, get a good firewall program such as ZoneAlarm (free for personal use) > and get a good virus detection program (Norton, McAfee, etc.) which will > scan incoming e-mails and make sure you keep the virus definitions up to > date. > > Norm > > ============================= > Norman C. Saunders > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > marshhawk@att.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================