Beware blank e-mails

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Thu Nov 29 11:09:48 EST 2001


I have just received a blank e-mail, with the subject line:
Re: [b-greek] Re: PERIERGA in Acts 19:19
on which the sender's name is given as:
"Bill Klein" <_williamgklein at earthlink.net>

Even before my anti-virus identified the presence of the Badtrans worm in 
this message, the combination of:
a blank message
and the underscore before the sender's ( correct ) e-mail address
tipped me off as to the dangerous nature of this virus/worm, which has just 
been uprated by the various anti-virus program makers from "moderate" to " 
high-risk".

When I say " sender ", I of course am not implying that Bill is the 
malicious originator, just that his address book, probably on an un-patched 
version of Microsoft Outlook, is serving as the vehicle for passing on ( 
unknown to him ) the worm which came with the virus. In his case, it  comes 
as: PICS.DOC.SCR

The various anti-virus web-sites are carrying full details of this 
"internet worm", and instructions on how to deal with it; I can recommend:
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99069&

Regards,
Maurice






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