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Re: heh someone here has a virus.
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Date: 
Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:10:27 GMT
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Dan Boger wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:41:03PM +0000, Rolf wrote:
> > few people emailed me " i has sent you this to hear your advice"
> > 
> > most names were from this fodum. if you see that email dnt open attachment
> > and delete the email.
> > 
> > no im not angry at all in fact im thinking its funny because  its first time
> > i got email from someone with a virus.
> 
> probably one of the recent outlook viruses - they send to everyone in
> your address book...  So people reading Lugnet via outlook will have
> everyone's names...  At least they can't post messages with viruses :)
> 
> FUT off-topic.geek - If you want to talk about that terrible program :)
> 
> --
> Dan Boger
> dan@peeron.com

The new sircam virus is pounding away at Tulane's mail servers too. According to
our IS department

http://www2.tulane.edu/tis/announce/announce_text.cfm?CURRENTID=44

the virus also looks through your browser cache files for email addresses.

Chris
--
See some of my LEGO creations at http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/



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(...) probably one of the recent outlook viruses - they send to everyone in your address book... So people reading Lugnet via outlook will have everyone's names... At least they can't post messages with viruses :) FUT off-topic.geek - If you want to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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