[GZG] virus?

4 posts ยท Feb 5 2006 to Feb 8 2006

From: Tony Christney <tchristney@t...>

Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 11:40:44 -0800

Subject: [GZG] virus?

Is anyone else getting loads of virus emails that look like they are from
__johnx1__at__hotmail__dot__com. The virus looks like:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32nyxemd.html

and the email headers show that the email is coming direct from
170.115.180.153 (at least today), which looks to be from the City of
Philadelphia's net block.

I am at no risk of infection, but I've got over a dozen of these things and it
is very annoying. I suspect someone on the list is infected...

From: Tony Finan <the_nemesis@c...>

Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:50:53 -0500

Subject: Re: [GZG] virus?

I think that is John Crimmins. I will be seeing him tonight and ask him to
check his system. Tony Finan
Chairman - Philcon 2005 www.philcon.org
"But in this heart of darkness, our hope lies lost and torn,
All fame like love is fleeting, when there's no hope anymore" -
Apocalyptica
[quoted original message omitted]

From: Robert N Bryett <rbryett@g...>

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:14:13 +1100

Subject: Re: [GZG] virus?

> Is anyone else getting loads of virus emails that look like they

I haven't seen any at all. So I doubt if they're coming through the list. Does
this list permit attachments, or are they stripped off?

From: John C <john1x@h...>

Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:00:47 +0000

Subject: RE: [GZG] virus?

> From: Tony Christney <tchristney@telus.net>

My apologies -- I've no idea what happened.  A barrage of virus-laden
e-mails were fired from my Hotmail account last week, much to my
chagrin. My home system is fine, as is my work computer...the only places from
which I connect to Hotmail. Talking to others, it seems that a number of
people have had the same problem with their Hotmail accounts...I don't know if
one of their machines became infected, or what.

Either way, I need to get organized and shift everything over to Gmail
sometime soon!