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Subject: Re: W32.Badtrans@mm - sent to many CCC members!

Author: William Penn

Date: 22:08:50 11/28/01

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On November 27, 2001 at 15:50:00, Terry McCracken wrote:

>Please people, make sure you're protected with a good anti-virus programme and
>make sure it's Auto-Protection is Enabled!
>
>I'm tired of reading a few posts then having to delete this worm/trogan
>everytime I vist, from my Outlook Express!
>
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html
>
>
>Terry

It looks like someone has harvested the email addresses in CCC profiles and sent
out the Badtrans worm to many of them. I've received it several times in the
mailbox used for my profile here on CCC. I don't use that mailbox for anything
else. So it certainly looks that way. Otherwise the ICD computer might have been
hacked(?)...
WP



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