Re: virus question

[Dan Robinson <drobinson@HWWEXCH.HWWILSON.COM>]

There are ways to embed malicious code within a regular email. It
doesn't have to be a 'virus attachment'. Take a look at the descriptions
for Bubbleboy in the various antivirus sites.=20

If there was an attachment with the message, LM_NET would not have
distributed it.

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krista Fersch [mailto:YALibrary@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:57 AM
>=20
> I seriously doubt it was a virus - if it was it was an=20
> extremely simple one (and done by an amateur).  Viruses have=20
> to be downloaded to 'infect' a computer.  They usually have a=20
> file suffix of .scr and sometimes .exe.  The text message=20
> sent to us was not a virus - it was simply a text message.=20
> Most viruses that are sent off to people in the original=20
> computer's addressbook will also have function that, once=20
> downloaded, sends yet another copy of itself to the people in=20
> the other addressbooks.  Hence the name - "virus".  My=20
> thought on what the message was? Personally, I think the=20
> sender sent it to some people she knew and accidently sent it=20
> to LM_NET.  Who knows.  Anyway - just keep in mind that if=20
> you get a mail message and you open it to read the text and=20
> there is another program that you have to open or click on,=20
> don't - THAT is the virus.  Always remember - viruses come as=20
> attachments to text messages - NOT the actual text message itself.
>=20
> Krista Fersch
> Young Adult Librarian
> Indian River County Main Library
> Vero Beach, Florida
>
>=20

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