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To: "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>, framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: List you have a greeting card from .
From: Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:48:02 -0500
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Sorta like the UNIX/Linux virus that circulates regularly? "This is the *nix virus. It works on the honor system. Please randomly delete a bunch of files from your hard disk, and pass this message on to everybody in your mailing list. Thank you for your cooperation." /kevin On Friday 08 November 2002 12:50, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > Strictly speaking, the Friends Greetings message is > not a virus. It is an example of "social > engineering"; it *asks* you to download the real > virus, which then obtains your permission (buried in > a license agreement) to send mail to all your > Outlook contacts. Yet another reason not to use > Outlook, IMHO. See: > http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99760 > for the whole story, with screenshots. > > Again, the message *itself* is harmless. Just don't > try to download the card... ;-) -- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...) ** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com ** ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. **