Hi all, it would seem that though not being sent through the Reflector, some
reflector member's PC has been infected and is sending out quanties of
infected mail. The message mentioned by Andre is not from Mike, I believe,
(someone else received a spoofed message with his name about 10 days ago.)
but as Andre, Brian, and myself have received the same message today it
would seem that someone's machine still has an undectected virus which is
using his address list of Reflector members and / or message Inbox (which
must be quite big for Mike changed his address some time ago, I only have an
archive folder back to April 2002 ...not in the Inbox...and it is not in
there.....I believe that Mike announced the change last year.....so whoever
is infected has an enormous INbox folder ) to forge the instantly
recognisable message with a 69kB attachment (a size that would not pass
through the reflector)
If you have not already checked your machine with a data update at about
30th Sept 2002 or later please run a system scan. I am led to believe that
NortonAV will not run properly when the PC is infected,but this is only
anecdotal evidence. If you are in doubt please read back reflector mail from
Dave G3YMC, which contains URLs with information.
Sorry to be a harbinger of bad news to someone.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
[email protected]
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