Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Kirk Lowery <Kirk AT leningradensis.org>]

Thanks, Greg, for taking prompt action. For what it's worth, the Lyris
conference software that runs B-Hebrew does have virus checking capabilities,
but its effectiveness depends upon the University of North Carolina's
system administrators.

I have also deleted the infected message from the b-hebrew archives.

Yes, the rule is: never, never, never open an attachment which
you did not expect, or which comes from an infrequent or unknown 
correspondent. FYI, the Pegasus email client (http://www.pmail.com)
does a good job of preventing attachments from automatically 
activating. Pegasus is for Windows, and it's free. The Mozilla/Netscape
browser also has an email/news client (I'm using it to write this
message), and it has lots of builtin security. Of course, the only
long-term solution to worms and viruses is to use a properly secured
operating system like Linux (there are *no* viruses for that OS)...

Blessings,

Kirk
B-Hebrew co-chair


Greg Doudna wrote:

> Yes a virus did go out of my computer in an attachment
> to an email sent to my entire address book (which included
> the b-hebrew list) on Friday night (Nov. 30) about 8 pm
> Eastern Standard Time (U.S.). 
>
> My programmer brother had the virus itself removed from
> my computer within minutes (and then he gave me his
> Virus Basics for Dummies lecture 101). No reports have 
> come back to me so far of anyone infected from my computer, 
> but b-hebrew list recipients are my biggest concern, 
> since b-hebrew is the only e-list in my address book whose 
> server did not bounce the offending message back to me 
> unsent.
>
> If anyone was infected with the virus this link will give
> instructions for the virus's removal:
>
> http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99069&#removal_instructions
>
> Also, I would appreciate knowing offlist if anyone
> was infected from my computer. 
>
> My problem was I had MacAfee virus protection software 
> installed, but had not updated it. (Lesson: it is not enough to 
> install a virus protection program once and then assume 
> protection thereafter; it must continually be updated.)
>
> After the virus was removed from my own computer 
> I sent out an email letter (about 9:30 pm EST Friday night) 
> to all individuals in my address book attempting to stop 
> people from opening the attachment in the email that
> went out from my computer about 8 pm Friday, and
> giving the link above if needed.
>
> I deleted b-hebrew from that mailing, however, because
> I thought that the server for b-hebrew would have detected
> and stopped the virus before it was sent out to the list, but
> that was not the case. 
>
> Greg Doudna
>
>
>
> > This morning I received a posting from "Greg Doudna (sic, with an n; =
> > isn\t the real person Greg Doudha?), subject line: "Re: Biblical Hebrew =
> > Digest No....." containing a virus attachment wth a very long name: =
> > "V32\...pif"=20
> > My anti-virus program warned me in tune so I deleted it.
> > Please be advised.
> > Sincerely,
> > Jonathan D. Safren
>
>
>
>
>
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