Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT hotmail.com>]

Thomas,

you are exactly correct. either her email has been hacked and someone is 
sending spurious virii msgs (every hour on the hour, it appears) or she has 
contracted a lovely social computer virus.

for the few who do not already know, files with a .scr extension are the 
latest "fave" of low-brow virus writers. in a valid form, they are 
"scr"eensavers that amaze and entertain millions. in this henious form, this 
extension is appended behind other commonly known file types (notice how 
they all have .doc or another common file type BEFORE the .scr).

they are going on the assumption that the //windows// system will hide 
commonly known file extensions (of which .scr is one, i believe) and people 
will just see "backstreetboys.doc" and get all excited and open it up. and 
it just so happens that internetworkers is in Tracy's address book, thus we 
get to enjoy this extra mail!

i certainly hope no one else was bitten. delete them now for your own good. 
and hopefully Tracy can get that nasty person and/or virus off of her 
machine.

d.m.

From: Thomas <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: [internetworkers] VIRUS WARNING  Re: internetworkers digest:  March 
16, 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:45:46 -0400

This message and the previous from Tracy Hollister has the markings of the
MTX virus.  Don't open the attachments.

In fact, how did attachments get on this list in the first place?  I
thought we had it set to strip files.....  I'll check.

TaB


At 12:49 AM 4/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
> 'InterNetWorkers digest' wrote: ==== - INTERNETWORKERS Digest for Friday,
> March 16, 2001.
> -
> - 1. Victim of my own Success
> - 2. RE: Victim of my own Success
> - 3. RE: Victim of my own Success
> - 4. okay, NOW we're having layoffs.
> - 5. Chapel Hill house for Rent

> - 6. RE: Chapel Hill house for Rent
> -
> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> - Subject: Victim of my own Success
> - From: "Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>
> - Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:42:27 -0800
> - X-Mess ...' > Take a look to the attachment.

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