Re: [ga] [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>]

At 5:34 am +0200 7/27/01, Robin Miller wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>SirCam has been bothering a lot of us that have websites with mailto links in
>the past days. Virus/worm scans the cache for recently visited websites and
>contains its own smtp server to spam itself out hidden in a random document
>selected from the harddrive (usually the recycle bin). Its a particularly
>nasty
>virus, makes me think a spammer must have programmed it.

What?

I think the person just wanted to highlight the fact that Microsoft is run
by a pack of idiots.

>You might want to email the woman that sent you the virus and inform her that
>she's infected. She might not know.

Don't forget to tell her the best way to protect herself from viruses is to
either install Linux on her PC or buy a Mac.

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