[Mb-civic] IMPORTANT - from the List Mama

[Little Birdie]

Hey Cheese (and anyone else interested...)

Michael didn't open the virus - his email address is just like yours in the 
undeliverable emails you are getting back. Michael uses a Mac which is 
blissfully immune to most viruses. Someone who uses a PC, and most likely 
Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and who has our emails addresses 
(Michael, you, lamama, bunim murray productions...), as well as both the 
Hair and Civic list, in their address book opened the virus. It is hard to 
pinpoint the person who is infected. A good rule of thumb for those of us 
using PCs is to never open attachments from ANYONE if they are not the usual 
file extensions.For instance,  .jpg and .doc. and .exl and others that we 
deal with regularly are fine. Avoid anything with unual file extensions, 
like .scr and .pif or anything else you are not used to seeing regularly. If 
it comes from someone you know, but has an odd extension email the person it 
came from and ask them if they sent it and what it is BEFORE OPENING IT. Two 
important things to remember: You must open the attachment in order to 
become infected by the virus most of the time (although the virus makers 
have come up with a few numbers that can be embedded in html in an email, 
but that is still rare, and not what is going around the list at this 
point). Secondly,just because your name appears as the sender of an infected 
email it does not mean that you have the virus, rather that someone who has 
you in their email address book has (or had) the virus. The single most 
important thing that you can do is invest in a good anti-virus program, such 
as Norton Anti-Virus or other similar programs, for your computer, and use 
it regularly to scan all incoming email and your entire computer regularly. 
And keep your virus definitions updated within the program.

If the list of email address above sounds suspiciously like anyone's address 
book email me privately, at this address, and I can give you the specific 
addresses at those domaines and you can see if you need to scan your 
computer.

Hope that helps.
Nina

P.S. - to those in digest format please excuse my leaving Cheeseburger's 
entire email attached below, but as I am sending this to the Hair list as 
wel,l there are many who haven't seen the original post and need to read it 
to understand what I amtalking about.

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http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html


>From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
>Reply-To: mb-civic at islandlists.com
>To: "mb-civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
>Subject: [Mb-civic] IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
>Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:52:41 -0500
>
>IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
>
>
>I'd like to put my 2 cents in on this one, maybe it will help someone, or
>even help me.
>
>Ok, I was wondering what was going on, as I am now receiving emails to
>myself from my isp server saying "Mail Undeliverable", but it also says it
>was sent originally to whomever by me at maxfury at granderiver.net, which it
>wasn't.  This has been going on for about a week or so I think.
>
>So, let me know, heh, this is serious, if Michael opened up a virus thing
>and it scanned his Address Book, then that's why I'm getting "Undeliverable
>Mail Returned" not sent by me to who knows how many people, but saying it
>was sent from my email address, so whoever was in his Address Book it has
>snapped up our email addresses and is sending viruses to countless people
>with viruses in them saying that we sent them, heh.
>
>Anyway, I was wondering what was going on.  Just for the record, I have not
>received an email from anyone in a long time, I access the MB Civic List
>from The Internet directly, and rarely if ever open anything from there in
>my Internet Browser that says "attachment attached" or whatever.
>
>In fact, I really wish people would NOT send attachments of any kind (I
>don't know if that's possible or not) and rather than an ***Attachment***
>(which a rather stout proportion of posts on the MB Civic Lists contain
>*just* them rather than even just a body in the post) put *at least* a
>website address instead where the information, jpeg or whatever can be
>directly accessed.  But then again I'm just wishing.
>
>Other than that, that's my take on it.  If anyone needs copies of the 
>emails
>of "Undeliverable Mail" that was/was not sent by me but returned to me
>because of "Fatal Errors", I will gladly forward them on if they will be of
>any use.
>
>Let me know if it all gets fixed, what's going on, or if there will be
>emails using my email address to send out viruses to people around the 
>world
>until the end of time or something.
>
>All in all, I have a feeling this is not going to help me sell mesquite
>bowls on the Internet, lol.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Cheeseburger