It is probably a useless exercise to notify them. The viruses use the
address book so if these people were in someone lese address book it would
appear to have come form then but did not, in fact the vast majority do not
come form the people that they appear to come form. This is one of the
things that makes it so bad.
It is just a waste of time and energy to be notifying people and is almost
as bad as the virus traffic itself. It is really up to each and every user
to protect himself from viruses. If they do not do that then they deserve
whatever they get.
If you make reasonable attempt at self protecting and are still hit , then
you deserve sympathy, if not, you don't. It does not make it right to send
the virus but all have been fairly warned these days.
The easiest and cheapest way to protect yourself is DO NOT OPEN any
attachments unless you are absolutely certain what they contain, unless you
know IN ADVANCE that they are coming , and from whom. Even then you are
safer if you have a good backup, ROXIO GOBACK is a GREAT defender of your
data but you still want a backup that is not stored on your computer..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-admin@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-admin@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of John Barber
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:11 PM
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] Bugbear virus
>
>
> So far I have bits of mail from Mike K4GMH, Vern W9HLY and Jay WS7I who
> must all have the virus on their computers.
>
> They have all been notified direct.
>
> More info at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
>
> Keep those firewalls up!
>
> John GW4SKA
>
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