At 07:46 PM 4/9/2002 -0400, Bill Frank wrote:
It's quite amazing how the "alleged" virus file has affected Listserv
members
who were in Alan Gettelmans address book.

I too received the aforementioned mailing "but with no attachment" as
described by several others (Grace.pif). My research indicates that
there is no new virus going around with this titlle, etc., etc.

Did anyones anti-virus software assign this alleged virus a name? If not,
it's either new or a false positive.

Yes, my Norton AV (new virus definitions update yesterday, luckily enough),
caught the beast. It was in the "magister" (?) family. The apparently
executable downloaded file was called "cristo.com", not Grace.pif (although
one can see the connection between the two "themes". In addition, the
message forwarded by Alan's system was:

">From your Christian brothers and sisters in Brevard County, Florida, on
Florida's Space Coast remember that:
Jesus the Risen Christ Loves You,
God Loves You and So Do We!
"I am confident of this: that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in
the land of the living."

No goodness here; this was no alleged virus file, but the real stuff.

Boa noite,

>José

José H. Leal, Ph.D.
Director, The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Editor, THE NAUTILUS
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