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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Merge virus?
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:41:38 -0400

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





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