Re: WARNING: FW: Virus Found in message "[PHP-DB] Re Now how about Roman Numerals?"

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:29, Miles Thompson wrote: > Hard to say - bugbear is making the rounds, and it's a pernicious little > beastie. > > It not only uses an existing address list, it has a built-in SMTP mailer > and synthesizes not only "To:" addresses, but also "From:" addresses. > Norton's popping up that bugbear warning about 7x each day right now. I'm > using Eudora with the "Use Microsoft viewer" option switched off - thus > nothing happens and NAV is quarantining them. It just amazes me how dumb these commercial products can be. It's not that hard for it to recognise that: a) warnings should never be sent to a mailing list b) some viruses use a 'random' from address and thus no warning should be sent to the 'sender' -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Well, the handwriting is on the floor. -- Joe E. Lewis */