Warning!

Hey, gang:

        I got a couple of e-mails today from "[hidden email]"  
with the subjects "the file" and "fwd: photo", which were infected with  
virii.

        I wouldn't mention it here except for the "squeak-dev" part. I'm not sure  
how someone would know I'm on the squeak-dev list.

        ===Blake===

Blake: "I got a couple of e-mails today from
"[hidden email]"
with the subjects "the file" and "fwd: photo", which were infected with
virii."

The e-mail address "[hidden email]" is the one I use
solely for my subscription to the Squeak mailing list.  I did not send you
any e-mails. I'll do a virus/malware scan though, just in case.

Thanks for the "warning."

--Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Blake
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:35 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Warning!

Hey, gang:

        I got a couple of e-mails today from
"[hidden email]"
with the subjects "the file" and "fwd: photo", which were infected with
virii.

        I wouldn't mention it here except for the "squeak-dev" part. I'm not
sure how someone would know I'm on the squeak-dev list.

        ===Blake===

Alan Lovejoy wrote:
Viruses are known to take sender and recipient addresses from outlook
address books, mail files and web browser caches, so the virus sender
could be any member of this mailing list (and even folks who access the
mailing list's archive via a web browser).
So everybody using a Windows system should check for viruses. Regularly,
even when nothing has happened...

Cheers,
Hans-Martin

Me: "I'll do a virus/malware scan though, just in case."

The result is no virii. The only malware detected were some cookies.

I use BitDefender anti-virus, DiamondCS's TDS3, SpyBot Search&Destroy and
BHODemon.

--Alan