VIRUS WARNING SUBJECT: [ltp] Administration

[Carol]

I was wondering what that was, I found it in my attacments in the trash,
Eudora and the Macintosh did not let it through. It slipped by my isps
virus protection though. Was a good thing I was not checking the mail
on the TP at the time
Carol


At 11:14 AM +0100 11/8/02, Bill Mair wrote:
>A BOGUS MAIL WITH A VIRUS WAS SENT TO THE LIST YESTERDAY !!!!
>
>Subject: [ltp] Administration
>
>The mail contains a virus infected attachment called README.EXE and
>is hidden with the mime type audio/x-wav.
>
>The virus is known as PE_BRID.A, THE KLEZ VIRUS or W32.Brid.A, just
>DELETE it.
>
>See the following symantec page for details:
>
>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.brid.a@mm.html
>
>
>And someone in the University of Puertorico is responsible for
>maliciously sending this mail to the list ! Not from an infected
>computer, but with the intent of infecting as many computers as
>possible.
>
>Thank god, I use Linux.
>
>To counter this behaviour in the future, I have set the mail size limit
>to 20k for all future postings.
>
>If you have windows, and have double clicked on the readme.exe then you
>are most probably infected.
>
>I am not sure about the M$ Outlook thing, maybe it executes attachments
>that are audio/x-wav auto-magically ?
>
>I am currently in discussion with the sysadmin for the mail list server,
>we will figure something out..
>
>Sorry for any inconvieniance that this may cause, but nobody has a
>perfect protection against hackers, and sending a virus infected to a
>mailing list is really the lowest of the low.
>
>Bill
>
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