John Cliff wrote:
>
>
> The forum this morning has six stalled messages containing the offending file,
> four of them (allegedly) from forum subscribers and two from 'spammers'. None
> of them has been distributed to subscribers, as far as I know.
I received two this morning, which were promptly nuked by Dr. Norton, so
something
is getting trough to some of us.
Peter
> I certainly
> haven't had them. If you have posted a message in the last 2 days which
> hasn't
> appeared, a virus scan on your system would be a wise precaution. There seems
> to be genuine content in several of these, which wouldn't happen in a random
> post by a third party.
>
> The forum is intended to preclude the distribution of attachments (and I
> haven't
> seen any sent over it for a long time), precisely to prevent viruses being
> sent
> to you in this way.
>
> The mechanism suggested by Jeremy, whereby both target and apparent 'sender'
are
> selected from the address book on an infected machine, seems quite likely. In
> the past such messages have been sent to people purporting to come from me.
>
> Let us hope this tiresome virus soon fades from view.
>
> John Cliff
> Europa Forum minder
>
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