Virus alert

[Bartek Plichta]

Yes, the virus only affects Windows PCs, though there should be a way to not display
sender email address in the web postings of ADS messages. Those addresses are very easy
to harvest for spammers.

Bartek


--- "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
> >We assume only PC (not Mac) users are affected?
>
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>
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> >Dear ADS users,
> >
> >There's a computer virus going around, also on this list. It
> >harvests email addresses
> >from the ADS web postings and distributes itself as a legitimate ADS
> >message. Once your
> >computer gets infected, the virus will send messages to all of your
> >contacts. More info
> >on the symantect and McAfee websites.
> >
> >The virus is called
> >W32/Bugbear.b at MM
>
> --
> Dennis R. Preston
> Professor of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
>       Asian & African Languages
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
> e-mail: preston at msu.edu
> phone: (517) 353-9290
>
>