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| From | Craig Leve <CraigL@ori.org> |
| Subject | FW: New e-mail virus - please read |
| Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:01:58 -0700 |
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For everyone's benefit, sorry for the uneditted email, but you'll get the
gist. This is from my wife's work.
best,
craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Leve [mailto:lesliel@oslc.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:01 PM
To: Craig Leve
Subject: FW: New e-mail virus - please read
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Fee
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:51 PM
> To: ALL USERS - WORK RELATED
> Subject: New e-mail virus - please read
>
> Folks:
>
> we're seeing evidence that a new email virus that is spreading throughout
the Internet
> has been spotted a couple times today by OSLC's early-warning system.
>
> So far everything is under control but please pay attention to unexpected
emails
> and think twice before opening unexpected files.
>
> There is no immediate danger here as our email system is so far catching
> and removing the virus. However, these things often mutate quickly in the
space
> of a day or two and our virus protection may not always keep up with all
the
> different versions.
>
> Please be extra careful when opening emails with attachments,
> especially if they are .ZIP files from folks outside of OSLC.
>
> If you get a message saying you SENT a message with a virus it is probably
> a fake. This virus will fake the From: address so an innocent person
> (like you) may be getting blamed for someone else's problem.
>
> Because of past issues with rapidly spreading email viruses, our system is
> on a hair-trigger alert. We use two separate sets of filters to catch
viruses
> and so far have been successful in keeping OSLC safe.
>
> FYI, If you have another email account beside your OSLC account, please be
> very wary of opening emails with attachments. This new virus spreads as a
.ZIP
> file which many anti-virus programs will assume is safe.
>
> Please see
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/techtarget/20030626/tc_techta
rget/911988
> for more info about this specific virus.
>
> thanks.
>
> --chuck and the ITS team
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