Re: [dvd-discuss] W32.Klez.H infection on of our group member's PC

["D. C. Sessions" <dcs(at)lumbercartel.com>]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 17:20, juergen + barbara wrote:
# of course, there are also known viruses on UNIX machines.
# this was an attachment anyway; so no harm as long one does not attempt to
# open it...

Really?  It hasn't hit the news yet.
I know that there's a vulnerability in old versions of PDF
which are architecture-independent, but I hadn't heard
that there was actually a mass-mail exploit for it.

# -----Original Message-----
# From: majordomo-owner@eon.law.harvard.edu
# [mailto:majordomo-owner@eon.law.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Glendon Gross
# Sent: Mittwoch, 02. Juli 2003 11:48
# To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
# Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] W32.Klez.H infection on of our group member's
# PC
# 
# 
# 
# This is one reason I prefer not to use Windows on the machine on which I
# read
# e-mail.   Reading mail from a UNIX machine is much more secure.  Such a
# practice also
# seems to reduce the number of unwanted commercial solicitations, since
# no executable
# can run with system-wide permissions.
# 
# Regards,
# 
# Glendon Gross
# 
# 
# > juergen + barbara wrote:
# >
# >
# > please do update and run AntiVirus scanners on a frequent basis!
# >
# > since this virus also fakes the sender of the infectious emails, I
# > urge anybody to look into their email address book and see whether
# > they have an entry shown below as "Sender".  Then, most likely, some
# > serious AntiVirus update and scan appears to be in order!
# >
# > This Virus has been first reported over a year ago!
# > (More info at http://symantec.com/AVcenter/.)
# >
# >
# > thanks,
# >      jm.
# >
# >
# >
# > Sender: jon <jon@nanocrew.net>
# > Recipient: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
# > Subject: [dvd-discuss] Look,my beautiful girl friend
# >
# >
# >
# 
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