Re: email worm?

["Linda Pall" <lpall@moscow.com>]

Just to put this on the record.

Greg Kimberling (or his computer, actually) sent me a message Monday morning
that referred to a press conference I had a couple of months ago announcing
that I would not be running for Congress in 2002. Naturally, I was
interested to see what the sudden interest was in such old news. I opened
the e-mail and opened the attachment, finding nothing and trying to
communicate to Greg to find out what was up. That was my fatal mistake.

My virus detection system did not capture this and the virus attached itself
to my e-mail system and proceeded to blast much of the Western world (and
yes, even some of the Eastern one). I realized Monday that I absolutely had
to get some help double quick. Unfortunately, my help was not as fast as I
needed and it was Wednesday morning before I could get someone in the office
to remedy this. Fortunately, it was Cactus to the rescue and Barbara
defragged the whole thing and pronounced me virus free about 1 PM Wednesday.

My now spunky, up-scale and rockin' virus detection system did not flinch
nor did it detect anything on DOug's e-mail... am I hopelessly doomed to
continual infaction, despite a very hefty investment in protection?

What about our collective protection? Are we taking enough precautions?

All the best and virus free,
Linda Pall



----- Original Message -----
From: "LuJane Nisse, Publisher" <lujane@lataheagle.com>
To: "SMW Scripter (FSI]" <MoscowSam@moscow.com>; "Vision 2020"
<vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: email worm?


> I have been getting these from different people and the "reply" gives the
> correct e-mail address but has an underline in the beginning which makes
it
> invalid. I've written to them with their correct e-mail to inform them
they
> are sending out viruses or worms however. Linda Pall's e-mail has sent out
> several to me and there was one other one... didn't get one from
> eze@mosocow, however. When I got the e-mail from Pall it automatically
> opened up my media player and tried opening the file (which was scary). It
> couldn't however and gave an error. I've never had an email do that
> (automatically try to open its attachment).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SMW Scripter (FSI]" <MoscowSam@moscow.com>
> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:17 PM
> Subject: email worm?
>
>
> > Have any others of you on Vision2020 had an experience today similar to
> mine?
> >
> > I received an email from _eze@moscow.com with a file attachment ending
in
> .pif.
> >
> > Upon opening the mail a small dialog box (window) opened giving me the
> choice
> > to open the attached file or to save it to a file.  Of course I did
> neither.
> >
> > I tried replying to the sender, at the address above, to issue a warning
> of my
> > suspicion that his computer is infected , but my email was rejected with
> the
> > message that the net address was invalid.
> >
> > Are we in the midst of a rash of email worms going around locally?
> >
> > Sam Scripter, Moscow
> > MoscowSam@moscow.com
> >
>