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What no one still has answered though: Can any known virus attack a mapped network drive? If so, can it clean off the IFS? _______________________ Booth Martin boothm@earth.goddard.edu http://www.spy.net/~booth _______________________ John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 12/26/1999 12:48 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST As a precaution we turned off ALL attachments to ALL company mail last week. This has resulted in a few inconveniences -- but -- It would prevent us from receiving bad e-mail such as this one. You may want to consider it. Keep in mind that the body of the message is a text attachment so you will probably want to let that one through. Everybody seems to be trying to write the "killer" y2k virus! John Hall Home Sales Co. Rick DuVall wrote: > > Hi All, > > If you happened to notice an entry attributed to me earlier today, dated > 12/23/99 10:32, then you have seen the results of a virus. I was sent a > mail message by (I assume) another innocent and upon opening it, it managed > to fire off alt LEAST 2 messages to addresses in my address book each > containing a considerable amount of (probably) malicious code. > > I have run my virus scanner without a hit - if this is the virus that > Booth referred to then I am probably sunk along with any of you who opened > the aforementioned entry posted to MIDRANGE-L ... > > My apologies if this turns bad for anybody - I had nothing to do with it > except as an unsuspecting host. > > Regards, > > Rick > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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