[pct-l] RE: virus

[Steven.Setzer at Colorado.EDU (Steve Setzer)]

Unsubsribing from this list may not take care of the problem.  Viruses
access people's email address books and then send out mail to those
addresses.  Because these emails are being mailed to me directly (as
opposed to pct-l) the infected computer knows about my specific email
address.  By unsubscribing, you're not changing your email address so you
may still get all these messages.  I'm not sure if I explained that well,
but if the virus messages are being sent to you specifically, then
unsubscribing probably won't fix the problem.  The person needs to get the
virus off his/her machine.  I installed spamassassin and that has taken
care of the problem for me.  Other spam filters probably work equally as
well.

Also, I'm not a virus expert so I could be wrong.  It may be worth a try
to unsubscribe.

Steve

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, dude wrote:

> hopefully, the infected person isn't out hiking, but left their
> computer on!  haha.
>
>
> > I'm getting bombarded as well. Some one needs to wake up and check
> > their computer.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 14
> > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:10:57 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >
> >> ssomebody on this list has the SWEN Virus way BAD.  I had over
> >> 900 emails this morning, and all the people in the "TO" field
> >> were people on this list, so I am pretty sure its someone on this
> >> list.
> >
> >
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