Virus going about?

[Alan Watchorn]

There seems to be a virus attack going on.  I got an infected message
supposedly from Angelo Sarto and BPS(Mary) got an infected message
supposedly from me.

Here is what I think is happening.  Someone has people on the VNC list in
their address book (I don't have anyone on the list in mine - just use
'Reply All') and their system became infected by this virus (Bagel
something).  The virus stole their address book (as viruses are wont to do)
and is sending infected messages to people using names at random from the
address book for both the 'To' and 'From' addresses (that's pretty easy to
do!).  The virus typically comes in an attachment named 'price.com'.

People who read this list are probably educated enough not to open any
attachment to an e-mail message (it's like opening a letter bomb that comes
through the regular mail!) but I would also encourage them to run a virus
scan every day (I run Norton every day at 7:00 AM) and delete anything it
finds unless the file is important; then quarantine it till you can clear up
the infection.

If anyone else experiences a virus please let the list know.

Alan.

Alan Watchorn
alan "at" eshelmanappraisals.com
(760) 692-4300