VIRUS Alert for the LIST

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


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Boucher" <RBoucher@stanpac.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas


> I am almost certain I remember getting this, because I remember
> double-clicking on something (I know, I know) and nothing happened.  I
> looked at the file name and remember thinking how strange it was that an
> .exe file would have a name that suggested a picture.  Then I deleted the
> email... but I had already double-clicked!!
>
> Anyone know how to determine if you have the pic4u.exe virus?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:51 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas
>
>
> At 12:04 PM 12/23/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>
> With all this talk of viruses, I downloaded the latest McAfee today, and
all
> was clean.
>
> Al
>
>
>
> Al,
>
> pic4u.exe was on the TV news the other night.  It comes as an attachment
on
> your e-mail. You click on it and absolutely nothing happens.  They then
> changed the PC's clock to 11:59:30, 12/31/1999 and we watched.  At
midnight
> the screen went black and the person said "We can tell you from experience
> that the disk drive in this machine is now empty.  pic4u.exe is a very
nasty
> virus."
>
> Merry Christmas to all, and a Thousand More.
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth <http://www.spy.net/~booth>
> _______________________
>
>
> "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> 12/23/1999 11:21 AM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
>
>         To:        MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas
>
> At 09:05 PM 12/22/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>
> We hear that the AS/400 has never had a virus. Is this true for the IFS?
>
>
> IMHO, the AS/400 natively is virus proof.  It is clearly possible for the
> IFS to be a carrier of a virus.
>
>  Is there some thing that prevents the IFS from being trashed by pic4u.exe
> for instance?
>
> Booth, I don't know what this program is.
>
> Merry Christmas to all, and a have a Happy (Uneventful) New Years.
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
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