Well, I guess that if you are gullible enough to open an executable file
that you
received, then you only have yourself to blame for your problems.

Hopefully, all these messages (prohibited in regards to the listserv) will
not
only point out to Alan his problem, but educate others on the list of the
dangers and the importance of having anti-virus software installed.

Fortunately for all of us, Amy long ago banned attachments being sent
via the listserv, which, as I am quite sure, save us many times over of
being
infected with virus's. Thanks!!

PS:  High-speed always-on connections are another matter. No
firewall/anti-virus,
then you are hacked - no if's, and's, or but's about it. That simple.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose H Leal" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: NO JOKE: virus alert to Conch-L!


> 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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