Hello all. Plse read the virus warning in the email below as it contains
very important information.
Just to warn you about W32/Yaha - the latest virus (or more correctly,
Worm) doing the rounds.
Like those before it, it comes in a variety of guises - mainly
screensavers
or attachmentswith a romantic sounding subject! However it can also
pretend to be an undeliverable email...click on the attachment which is
supposed to be your undeliverable emails...and wham! You're infected. Do
watch out for this.
Look at
http://www.sophos.com for more details.
Furthermore, like our old friend Klez, it sends out to everyone in the
victim's address book....and chooses one address at random to substitute
for the sender's. Thus the mail appears to be coming from a completely
innocent person and there is no way of knowing whose computer is actually
infected. Therefore no point in firing back rude/angry messages to the
sender. They don't have the virus. They just happen to be in the same
address book....and next time it could be your address that the virus
picks
on as the sender! You may find you receive viruses that appear to be
sent
from a Rootsweb mailing list. No they're not! The address is just one of
many in the address book of an infected computer.
Rootsweb mailing lists don not accept attachments, HTML messages or
messages over a certain size so this substantially reduces the risk of
viruses reaching the lists.
I am not sure if Yaha is one of these worms which targets Outlook Express
only. I say this because I have received none on my home computer where I
use Eudora, but two or three daily at work where I use OE. Luckily at work
we have Norton with automatic updates so it has caught every one so
far. My Sophos at home is also bang up to date. Remember - your virus
software is not a lot of use if you don't update it regularly as new
viruses and worms appear all the time and you can only hope to remain
protected if your virus software is up to date.
KLEZ - just another warning on this one....there is a message going round
purporting to be a protection against Klez. It tells you to colick on the
attachment to get this protection. Need I tell you that the attachment
actually contains the viurs? It even tells you to ignore your virus
protection if it alerts you to the fact that this is a virus! Please
don't
be fooled. Please don't ever open any unsolicted attachments
from anyone!
Donna King
List Owner Tolpuddle/Cannell Mailing Lists
deking(a)rogers.com
LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE -
UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some
are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors...but they all
have to learn to live in the same box