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Subject: Re: [OT] Virus protection?[OT]

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 23:10:06 02/29/04

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Hi Peter,

> The reason I ask is I have recieved emails from people here at the CCC that I
> speak to via email, that are infected with email worms. I have emailed those
> specific individuals giving them a heads up to remove whatever worm they are
> infected with and a link to the correct virus removal tool from the Symantec
> website.

in fact that has nothing to do with those people. The newer worms fake the
from-adress, so you can never be sure who have sent it or who is infected.
Especially with the Beagle worm I got usually around 100 viruses by mail each
day for about a week. From nearly everybody I know in the CC-scene. And it's
very unlikely that they are all infected -> especially because I know that some
of them only use Linux... :)

Another Virus which floods my eMail-accounts was last year Sobig.F - also with
eMail-adresses that were faked and seem to indicate that complete comunity is
infected. (e.g. I got viruses from Robert Hyatt, Frank Schneider, Vincent
Diepeveen etc. - And I am very sure that they have no virus on their PC) So
deleting viruses and spam out of my eMail folder has become part of my life - so
sad it is, there seems to be no chance that this ever will change...

Greets, Thomas



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