WARNING, HARRY! YOUR COMPUTER MAY BE INFECTED WITH A VIRUS

[Harry Edwards]

Ran a thorough virus scan; my hard drive is uninfected.
Don't know how this is happening.

Harry




On Jul 3, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> Harry,
>
> I just went and looked at the agl archive for
> today. It has 2 digital files which are undoubtedly
> viruses and your email to the list quoted below.
>
> The viruses presumably were sent by a subscriber
> because if a non-subscriber posts to agl, the
> maillist software automatically flags it to me
> to decide what to do with it.
>
> I fail to understand how you were the only one
> to receive agl mail today. The list has been
> inactive the last few days and I haven't seen
> any agl mail today (or yesterday).
>
> Here's a possible explanation:
>
> Unbeknownst to you, you may have a virus in
> the email application you are using. I recommend
> that you check out your system for viruses.
>
> If there is a virus in your system which is posting
> itself to agl, perhaps agl, recognizing it as a virus,
> is automatically bouncing it back to you. And
> that your provider ev1, also recognizing it a
> virus as did agl, is sanitizing it and automatically
> sending you a virus warning. If agl is bouncing
> it back to you, that would explain why no other
> subscriber has received anything.
>
> Ad-Aware is an excellent free utility to do this with
>
> http://www.download.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=Ad-Aware&tg=dl-2001
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> The Management
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf@ev1.net>
> To: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 7:21 AM
> Subject: Fwd: WARNING: YOU WERE SENT A VIRUS
>
>
>> Another virus through AGL.   Harry
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "postmaster" <postmaster@mail.ev1.net>
>>> Date: July 2, 2004 10:46:45 PM CDT
>>> To: <laughingwolf@ev1.net>
>>> Subject: WARNING: YOU WERE SENT A VIRUS
>>> Reply-To: <postmaster@mail.ev1.net>
>>>
>>> The virus software on ev1.net has reported that you were
>>> sent a virus from austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net, with the
>>> subject "Fax Message Received".
>>> The E-mail containing the virus has been removed to prevent further
>>> damage.
>>>
>>
>
>