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

At 01:45 AM 6/17/2003 +0800, Jason Wong wrote:

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,

It doesn't send anything to the mailing list; I'm talking about warnings popping up on my system. Nor did it send a warning to the sender. After all that would be counterproductive for a virus. <g> Maybe we should saw this off now - I replied chiefly because I thought it v. unlikely that Hugh would have sent a buggy email to the list. Cheers - Miles