Re: [FWDLK] Virus HOAX.

["scroker" <scroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have heard of the spam mail virus that Shannon had mentioned.  I heard the
same thing , that it retrieves a couple of your files and then they sell
your e mail info to mailing lists.  Other than that it does no damage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon White <swhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Virus HOAX.


>> Thanks for the thought, but this is one of the many "successful" internet
> hoaxes
>> going around.  Please
>> notify whomever you received that email from (and whomever you might have
>> forwarded it to) that there
>> is no such virus, and to check the web sites listed at the end of this
email
> if
>> they wish to confirm this...
>
>Nice explanation.  We get these virus "warnings" constantly where I
>work.  They are an extreme nuisance.  Our normal everyday users often
>believe them and then forward them all over our campus.  It bogs the
>mail system, gets people worked up about nonexistant viruses that are
>said to do thing that are physically impossible, and are generally
>just a pain in the #$%.  I have a tendancy to just hit 'Delete'
>whenever I see a subject that says "Virus Warning", which is bad
>because when a valid warning comes, I might miss it.  This is the
>third false warning I've seen this week alone.
>
>I did get a possible valid warning today from a security company in
>Santa Clara, CA, (RAM Information System) about an attachment to spam
>email called picture.exe.  It is a trojan horse that extracts a
>couple of files that collect information on your file system and then
>sends the encrypted info to a advertising company in China.  No
>damage is done, you are just put onto many junk mailing lists.  This
>virus seems possible, and the way junk email is going now days,
>probable.  This company (RAM) supposedly is posting two detection
>programs on their site (don't have the address), and other virus
>scanners are supposed to find it.
>
>-Shannon
>
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>Shannon White                        Waco, TX
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