Re: RE:VIRUS ALERT!: W95.Hybris.worm

At 07:06 16/05/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Donald, are these viruses supposedly coming to you on messages through
>the list? Because there are no attachments on list messages - they
>get stripped out. I suppose some macro code could be contained in the
>body of a message, but not in an attachment.
>
>I'm reading the list with unix software that understands none of these
>extensions, and so should be dumping them to my screen as source or
>unprintable characters, yet I'm seeing none of what you talk about.

I don't believe that these messages are coming from this list, for the
reason you mention (you can't send attachments via this list). I've
received this virus a number of times over the past few weeks but haven't
managed to pinpoint the source yet, and on each occasion Norton Antivirus
has successfully detected/deleted the file as the Email message comes in.

See the following description on the Symantec website - describes how the
virus works & how to disinfect (if you have it):

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.hybris.gen.html


Regards,
Tony