Re: Radsafers & the Badtrans virus alerts

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@HOME.COM>]

Hi Bjorn,

You are correct that the virus only uses un-replied emails.

norm



Bjorn Cedervall wrote:



> It is obvious that several (many?) of us at Radsafers got the Badtrans virus

> in our email. The combination of an email to Radsafers that I sent 10 days

> ago + "Me nude" didn't make much sense (the email came from an .ru address).

> (I killed it of course - on another computer BTW).

>

> http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/badtrans/default.asp?cid=2607

>

> The virus is aggressive and can steal your passwords etc.

>

> I noticed that several other Radsafers got the email with other titles than

> the "DNA & neutral filter elution title" that I had. Therefore I wonder if

> the virus possibly may have made its way to our archives? An alternative

> explanation is that it only picked unread emails for its spreading and some

> of those completely different emails happened to be in the same computer.

>

> My vague virus ideas only,

>

> Bjorn Cedervall      bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

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