Virus from Ohiou.edu

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, I'm afraid OU is the culprit--but this thing is spreading all through 
the PC system here.  I've called the computer services people, and they 
tell me they've been hit too.  Apparently a virus (klez, I believe) is 
finding address books and sending itself to all addressees (if that's the 
right jargon).  When I asked what I could do about it, I was told 
"nothing"--except maybe to change to a different account for a while that 
doesn't go through the OU system.  Can any of you give me better advice???

Meanwhile, I was told to turn off the preview pane, so that messages don't 
automatically pop up; and of course never ever open an attachment to weird 
messages like the one falsely appended to Popik notes!

At 03:05 PM 10/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>....and Bergdahl has a Mac so, Bev???
>
>--On Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:23 PM -0400 Grant Barrett 
><gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG> wrote:
>
>>Le Tuesday, 15 Oct 2002, à 12:42 America/New_York, Michael Vezie a
>>écrit :
>>
>>>This message was a virus.  But it didn't come from Bapopik.
>>>
>>>It came from someone at Ohio University who (I'm guessing) owns a
>>>Compaq (and calls their computer "compaq").  This based on the header
>>>which showed:
>>>
>>>Received: from compaq (modem-203-098.dialnet.ohiou.edu
>>>[132.235.203.98])
>>>         by oak1a.cats.ohiou.edu (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19) with
>>>SMTP id g9FDw4Ol597673;
>>>         Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>>We have two active users at ohiou.edu: Beverly Flanigan and David
>>Bergdahl.
>
>
>
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