RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Oh for chrissake, people, would it be possible for you to look for your 
virus information somewhere slightly more authoritative than 
alt.music.chapel-hill?

For the record: At this point, 99.99% of emailed viruses you receive are 
pretty much guaranteed NOT to have come from the apparent sender. 
They're all little programs that infect a machine, then dig through the 
files on that machine looking for email addresses (either from your mail 
program's address book or from your Temporary Internet Files).

Then they use built-in mailer routines to send emails *to* addresses 
they found, formatted to appear as though they came *from* other 
addresses that they found.

So if you're getting anything weird or remotely viral-looking, it's a 
safe bet that it *didn't* come from whomever it looks like it came from. 
 It's also a safe bet that whoever is infected has both you and the 
supposed sender in his or her address book, or has visited your or their 
website lately & gotten your address that way.

Keep your virus protection up to date, folks, but don't waste your time 
trying to alert other people to possible infections, because you're 
rarely going to have the information necessary to figure out who's 
actually infected.

xoxo

Ross

Rawls wrote:
> > Can anyone confirm/deny this? Can I delete it?
> > Thanks (and be on the lookout...)
> > Jamie
>
>
>      Some other labels seem to be having problems with
> viruses as well.  I've gotten a similar vague message
> disguised as being from Kill Rock Stars and Dischord
> has a warning on their website about one being sent
> under their name...maybe Billy Corgan is finally
> getting back at all of those "indie rock snobs" that
> picked on him a decade ago.
>
>                                           Rawls