RE: Screen your e-mail

["John N. Alegre" <listhub@libros.andante.mn.org>]

Oh .... so thats what that was.  Funny it came to me as a reply to a question I
posed to the list about a web site listing new Apisto species.

Ahhhh, the shear joy and security of reading all email on UNIX (Linux in this
case).  I saved it as a file and attempted to open it with Acrobat Reader and
Ghostscript.  When these did not work I just deleted it.

No virus here!!!
john

On 28-Apr-01 David A. Youngker wrote:
> Well, someone finally got a virus past me (see what I mean about this
> year?). OK by me that it should happen now - been looking for an excuse to
> wipe Win98 anyway, so I simply scratched the system and reinstalled from
> CDs.
> 
> However, this virus is particularly crafty - undeserved kudos to the
> designer. It will reply to one of your own messages stored on the victim's
> computer, carrying the virus posing as a pair of PIF files. Foolish me - I
> ventured to open the files in an attempt to see which files the sender was
> _supposed_ to send.
> 
> It took me two log- ons to figure out what the extra traffic was across my
> modem. Coincidentally I had just downloaded and installed IE6 beta just
> hours prior, and at first thought the quirky behaviors stemmed from patchy
> OE coding.
> 
> The message I received was from
> 
> "Apistos"
> a.k.a.
> apistogrammasetc "at" yahoo "dot" com
> 
> As I'm back on now, I see where Rick has sent me a warning about the virus
> (thanks for trying - just too late). I wrote the above address in such a
> fashion because I don't recognize the sig (although "Apistos Etc" sure
> _sounds_ familiar), and don't want to create an active link to a possible
> contaminant. Putting two and two together, though, I'd say that there are
> others out there on this List who may have received it as it works its way
> through various Address Books.
> 
> I've only received about a half- dozen valid attachments that I can ever
> recall. For all intents and purposes, can't say I've much personal use for
> 'em considering the close watch required on them today. Quickest way around
> that was to set my browser to delete any message carrying attachments from
> the server immediately - before they even get _to_ my computer.
> 
> ***
> Erik   ***
> 
> Take particular note, as the Contest / Conference Lists are, of course, part
> of _my_ address book...
> 
> -Y-
> 
> David A. Youngker
> nestor10@mindspring.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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E-Mail: John N. Alegre <listhub@libros.andante.mn.org>
Date: 29-Apr-01
Time: 19:19:47

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