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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:37:58 GMT, tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom
MacIntyre) wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:05:47 GMT, Droid Man <me@me.com> wrote:
>
>>Yes you win, three threads about the same thing and a list of people
>>who don't patch their software as per Microsoft recommendations.
>>
>>If you want protection for MS mail products go to
>>http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/Out98sec.aspx
>>
>>Be aware when you put this update on, you cannot email exe files. They
>>have to be renamed or zipped.
>
>I don't use MS mail products, and I received several of these in the
>last two days. I know of other cases similar to mine as well.
>
>Tom
>
>>

And your browser is from? MS?
Your OS is from ? MS?

You need to read and patch . Security should be proactive.


>>On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:53:23 +1000, Don McKenzie <don@dontronics.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Bob Parker wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>    I case it's not clear to everyone, this "Klez" worm covers its
>>>> tracks by taking a random e-mail address from the address book in the
>>>> machine it's infected, and putting that random address into the "From"
>>>> line of the infected e-mails it sends out to others in the same
>>>> address book.
>>>>    This means that when you receive it, it did *not* come from the
>>>> computer shown in the "From" line. So don't contact that person and
>>>> abuse them. :-)
>>>>    If that doesn't make sense it's because I'm half asleep. Don
>>>> McKenzie has written a much clearer explanation and put it on his
>>>> website. See http://www.dontronics.com/virus.html
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bob
>>>
>>>Thanks Bob,
>>>Re http://www.dontronics.com/virus.html
>>>I added this text to the page today:
>>>
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>Hi Don, 
>>>I know what you mean. I receive email virus sent from myself [to
>>>myself]. 
>>>Too bad these programmers have nothing better to do with their time. I 
>>>would bet if they chose to, they could actually be doing something
>>>useful. 
>>>Regards, 
>>>-Bruce 
>>>http://rentron.com/ 
>>>Reynolds Electronics 
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>Don, my thanks to you for the postings. For some reason, for the past
>>>week, I have been receiving a rash of viruses via e-mail attachments -
>>>one was the W32/Sir.Cam worm coming in every half hour from the same
>>>address - a hotel in Quebec [???].
>>>
>>>Turns out this particular address was a real place, and not a
>>>pseudo-address. I called and notified them, and I am no longer
>>>receiving the every 1/2-hour e-mails. I assume they removed my address
>>>from their system. Whatever, the magic seems to have worked [at least
>>>for now].
>>>- dan michaels
>>>www.oricomtech.com
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>Am I starting to win?
>>>Cheers Don...
>>>
>>>Don McKenzie    mailto:don@dontronics.com     http://www.dontronics.com
>>>
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>>