At 03:05 AM 6/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>YES, VIRUS.
>
>Sorry, guys. Our office was infected with a VERY NASTY virus today. DO
>NOT ATTEMPT TO TO OPEN THE ZIPPED FILE ATTACHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>This thing got through and had half our office down in very short order.
>In addition to destroying your own files, it goes down your address book
>and sends out e-mails to folks with its own virus attachment.
>
>Honest, "I" did not "send" out any such e-mails. But, sorry to say, my
>computer did after getting infected. When we found out it was as nasty
>as it was, I physically shut down my computer, but obviously I had been
>"generating" e-mails without my knowledge.
>
>DELETE ALL SUCH MESSAGES. THEN DELETE THEM FROM YOUR WASTEBASKET. IF
>YOU TRY TO OPEN THE ATTACHMENT, YOU WILL LOSE DATA. AND YOU WILL
>INADVERTENTLY SEND OUT YOUR OWN PILE OF INFECTED E-MAILS!!!
>
>Sorry.
>
>Linda Kemp
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Mayes [SMTP:christopher.mayes@actrix.gen.nz]
>> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:51 AM
>> To: pcp@mailbase.ac.uk
>> Cc: 106026.766@compuserve.com
>> Subject: Possible Virus
>>
>> Hi list members,
>>
>> I have received 4 very long and seemingly almost identical messages
>> with
>> different subject headings related to activity on this list,. They
>> start with:
>>
>> Hi John !
>> I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP.
>> Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs.
>> bye.
>>
>> They come from kemp@SOFTWARE.ORG.
>>
>> I haven't had time to investigate this but this is very suspiciously
>> like a
>> virus included in an attachment "zipped_files.exe". I recommend
>> extreme
>> caution before running these files.
>>
>> And, in case I'm wrong kemp, please accept my humblest apologies.
>>
>>
>> -------------------
>> John Mayes
>> <john@EnquireWithin.co.nz>
>> <http://www.EnquireWithin.co.nz>
>
>You're not wrong. This virus is now safely on a diskette and should be
>heading to some official or other.
>
>In my case it was addressed to "Hi j.Maxwell !" and the rest was the
>same as yours. I sent the attachment to the other side of my firewall
>before opening it, but it still crashed that system and I only had
>seconds while other drives on the network were spinning up in order to
>hit the power buttons.
>
>As it is I've spent the whole day rebuilding that one computer from
>scratch. No doubt kemp@SOFTWARE.ORG doesn't exist but by coincidence
>software.org deal with DARPA and Lend Lease and just maybe one of their
>blitzkrieg attack servers that they were using in the latest of their
>"money wars" has run amok.
>
Jonathan D. Raskin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology-Jacobson Faculty Tower
State University of New York at New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard
New Paltz, NY 12561-2499
office phone: (914) 257-3471; fax: (914) 257-3606
e-mail: raskinj@matrix.newpaltz.edu
personal web page: http://www.newpaltz.edu/~raskinj/index.html
Constructivist Chronicle web page:
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