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I, too, received a message from "beer," with an attachment, and deleted it without opening. The phrase "take a look to the attachment" is characteristic of the W32.Badtrans virus. You may get more information at: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99069& Please note that "beer" may be a victim him/herself, and still not realize it. It is very unlikely that he is the malicious cyberterrorist. Efforts should be made to contact him/her, so that he can take action to clean his computer. If "beer" is not a member of the list, he/she must have some indirect connection which might be tracked down by our sysop if you provide them with the information available by right-clicking on the header of the message and looking at "details." Copy this information and forward it to the sysop, not to the list. Jorge Romero, MD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Cochran" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Email from "Beer" > In a message dated 9/16/2001 12:32:28 PM, [log in to unmask] writes: > > << please DO NOT OPEN the attachments > from "Beer" on those emails >> > > The attachments from "Beer" are especially insidious because they are posted > as replies to individuals, not to the list, so the email and attachment > appear to be a personal message. Yesterday I was tired and unthinkingly > downloaded the attachment, which had the suffix .scr, persumably for script. > I blinked, sat up, came to my senses and trashed the document without opening > it. I then sent an e-mail to the sender. No reply, of course. > > Clearly, some would-be cyberterrorist is accessing the list and posting to > list members. > Just what we all need right now, yes? > > Kathleen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn