RTP-area local music and culture

["G.T. Tyson" <gtyson AT nc.rr.com>]

CNN has something about this today at:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/22/tech.spam.reut/index.html

gtt




grady wrote:
> 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
>>
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene