The latest Virus - MyDoom

(Dragging out the dusty and rarely-used MODERATOR hat)

Dear readers, here's a message from our fearless leader, David Gibbs,
the man through whose generosity all these lists are brought to you:
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Folks:

Once again there is a batch of viruses in distribution via email that 
are forging the 'from' address.

Please keep in mind that, if you get a virus from someone, it's probably

not being sent from them at all ... but someone else with both the 
apparent sender and you have corresponded with.

Unfortunately, this means that it's possible for a virus to be sent to a

mailing list.

I am running active virus protection (two different virus scanners, 
f-prot & clamav) which seems to be catching everything that has been 
thrown at it.

Rest assured, however, that even if the virus were to get past the virus

scanner ... the virus payload would be removed from the email before it 
gets distributed so only the text portion of the message could possibly 
get distributed.

As always, please make sure you are running virus protection on your 
systems and that your virus definitions are up to date.  A current 
backup doesn't hurt either :)

If you have questions about virus protection, feel free to post a 
message in the PCTECH mailing list 
(http://lists.midrange.com/listinfo/pctech) or contact me directly.

david
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Thanks everyone!  This is a nasty virus.  I have already called two
companies to tell them they were infected.  The virus can affect
individual desktops behind firewalls, turning them into little attack
machines.  Remember: NEVER open an attachment from someone you don't
know.

Joe