virus reported

[Arjan Rodenburg]

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Hi All,

It does not seems to be a false alarm.
Mcafee groupshield also indentifies the virus and quarantined it.
As it is detected by several blends of virusscanners it is likely to
be a real one. Deleting the message and the attachement is the safest
thing to do.

I guess we all know not to open attachements from who we are not sure 
what the purpose is. aren't we ???

For the users of several flavors of Unix (included Linux) there is no
real thread of infection. in the first place because zIMHO you do not
run exe files in Unix.

Regards,

Arjan Rodenburg

John McMinn wrote:
> 
> Be aware+ACE-  Virus alert+ACE-
> 
> I have received a message from Rolf Wadstein, entitled 'xrdb error' that
> includes an attachment called 'Happy 99.exe' -  McAfee reports this as
> containing a virus (I forget which one - dammit+ACE-).  I don't know if this is
> a false alarm or not - however, I deleted it from my system.
> 
> John
> 
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