Important

[Richard J Senghas]

Linganth Subscribers:

VIRUS ALERT! Someone sent a virus to the linganth list as an attachment
file, and it managed to get through and distributed to many of you. I've
received a slew of responses from several servers that caught the virus on
arrival. Attached below is one such message.

SO: If you got a message from myamaguchi at sprynet.com or
linganth at cc.rochester.edu with the subject header "Important" dated 14
March, DELETE it immediately. If you've open the attachment already, you
need to respond to the virus attack by running a current virus checker on
your system (see your sysadmin if you need help with this). This appears to
be more of an issue for Windows machines, but Macs might serve as vectors,
so all recipients should delete the message.

I'm going to block attachment files from the list, allowing text-only
messages for now. Seems safer this way, alas.

-Richard
linganth list adminstrator
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-a8dfidaoRadvfuck"
Message-Id: <E16lfyD-0000mS-00 at smtp6.mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:53:21 -0500

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:04:07 -0800 (PST)
From: postmaster at weber.sscnet.ucla.edu
Subject: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL TO aduranti
To: owner-linganth-outgoing at galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Original-recipient: rfc822;Richard.Senghas at sonoma.edu

                   V I R U S  A L E R T

  Our viruschecker found a VIRUS in your email to "[account edited out]".
           We stopped delivery of this email!


Most viruses work in the background and send infected
emails without your knowledge.  The virus may try to
send email to people in your address book and/or other
names not known to you.  The virus may send private
information from your computer to others and/or it
may send pornographic material that appears to have
been sent by you.  Because the virus is sending the
infected emails while you are trying to surf the web
or read your email, it can make your connection to
the Internet seem very slow.

If you have an anti-virus software package installed,
make sure you have the latest updates.  If you do not
have anti-virus software installed, many commercial
packages are available at any store that sells
computer software.  You can also get a free online
virus scan at this website:
http://housecall.antivirus.com

(Continued sending of virus infected emails by our
customers may result in account suspension.)

    Now it is on you to check your system for viruses

For your reference, here are the headers from your email:

------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS -----------------------------
Received: from galileo.cc.rochester.edu (galileo.cc.rochester.edu
[128.151.224.6])
	by weber.sscnet.ucla.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09025;
	Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:04:03 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from majord at localhost)
	by galileo.cc.rochester.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2F0rN703085
	for linganth-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:53:23 -0500 (EST)
X-Authentication-Warning: galileo.cc.rochester.edu: majord set sender to
owner-linganth at ats.rochester.edu using -f
FROM: myamaguchi at sprynet.com
TO: linganth at cc.rochester.edu
SUBJECT: Important
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-a8dfidaoRadvfuck"
Message-Id: <E16lfyD-0000mS-00 at smtp6.mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:53:21 -0500
Sender: owner-linganth at ats.rochester.edu
Precedence: bulk
-------------------------- END HEADERS ------------------------------

  Virus type: W32/Fbound.c at MM

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Department of Anthropology/Linguistics   | 1801 East Cotati Avenue
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