Hello Tweeters,
There is a virus going around.We had messages last evening from
dpaulson,xenops,rrogers122 at attbi.com.We saw this already digussed on
Obol.All had attachment's which we all deleted.This worm call"KLEZ"

Ruth Sullivan Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Patterson" <celata at pacifier.com>
To: "Obol" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
Cc: "Obol" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses


> If you switch to view all header, the real name and address
> of the source appears. The name most commonly associated
> with the tainted, virus riddled mail I've bothered to check
> before tossing is mhast27 (aka Marjorie Hastings), but
> I've stopped checking and assume there are others by now.
>
> The good news is Bill Gates is thinking of pulling the
> windows operating system rather than try to comply with
> the terms of the current litigation. This could mean that
> the far superior and rarely infected MacOS may become the
> standard....
>
> Joel Geier wrote:
> >
> > Hello OBOLers,
> >
> > Just to note that the virus that has been making the rounds
> > among OBOL users is widespread and, if you read the info
> > which John Snelling kindly pointed us to, you can see there
> > is no reason to assume that these messages are being sent by
> > the person whose address appears on the "from" line.
> >
> > Apparently the virus picks both the "from" and "to"
> > addresses randomly from the address book of the infected
> > computer. So if you receive an infected message, it just
> > means that both you and the supposed "sender" were in the
> > address book of some third person who is actually the one
> > with the infected computer.
> >
> > Devilishly clever. Apparently one of the consequences of
> > this virus is that a lot of people (including me) have spent
> > time writing notes to other people, erroneously informing
> > them that their computer appears to be infected.
> >
> > Good birding,
> > Joel
> >
> > --
> > Joel Geier
> > jgeier at attglobal.net
>
> --
> Mike Patterson
> Astoria, OR
> celata at pacifier.com
>
> http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html
>
>