Re: viruses & hoaxes Re: wwpotter-d Digest V99 #76

Tim Spofford (tims@spof.org)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:33:53 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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At 06:46 PM 3/27/99 -0800, you wrote:

>There is one worm virus making the rounds now--Happy99.exe

Technically it's not a virus but, more importantly, there's a newer one,
similar but more pernicious, first sighted in the wild yesterday. The
short of it is that if you see an incoming message with the subject "Important
message from xxx," where "xxx" is one of your regular correspondents and an
attachment called list.doc, don't open it. See
http://www.msnbc.com/msn/253803.asp.

Tim Spofford
Kirkland, Washington
P-19 #611