More viruses being sent directly to list users

[John Croft, Jr., K3NJ]

Hi Steve and others-

I came across (or rather the virus arrived at my inbox) a few days ago . .
. I did find the following link at the McAfee site:


                http://vil.nai.com/vil/wm10475.asp

Hope that helps.

73,

John, K3NJ

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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Steve Harrison wrote:

> At 07:43 PM 1999-12-19 -0500, Dan Ferguson wrote:
> >Yes, I also got the HOG.EXE file, also in an email forged to make it look
> >like it came from myself, with a subject the same as something I posted
> >recently to the R-390 list.  And McAfee Virus Scan did NOT identify it as
> >infected.  I still didn't open it.
>
> I'm still poring through the McAfee site but so far, see no indication that
> they are protecting against this series of worms. The Symantec site, of
> course, does mention them all. Maybe I'll change over to the Norton
> antivirus stuff.
>
> Interestingly, some months ago, a good friend of mine forwarded me a copy
> of saddam.exe. It was a very entertaining animated cartoon and as far as I
> could tell, only that. Maybe it left something in my system that's gonna
> blow up soon, though.
>
> The same friend sent me g_zilla.exe about a month ago. It was an animation
> cartoon about po lil Billy Gates being chased around by the Govmint Gorilla
> (come to think of it, I received it the day after the federal judge decided
> that Microshaft was, indeed, engaged in monopolistic practices, whenever
> that was). Guess I'd better delete both it and saddam.exe (although the
> horse(s) is(are) probably already out of the barn by now.... ;o(((
>
> 73, Steve K0XP
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