[ECOS] Virus on message

[Andrew Lunn]

I find it all rather strange. This morning I had lots of emails from
postmasters and mail virus filter from all over the world saying i
sent all sorts of random people this message. Not just people on
ecos-discuss. This is not true. It looks like some mail virus has
picked up my mail, attached the virus to it and then sent it to many
people, making it look like it came from me. Our mail logs shows i did
not send it. Also, my machine is not infected. Its a Solaris machine
anyway, so much less likely to get infected by a virus or a worm.

So, please don't shoot me, im an innocent bystander in all this.

    Andrew

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:33:57AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 18:54, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > One of the messages discussing eCos contains a virus. Do not run the
> > executable that is attached. It is attached to the one named "Re: [ECOS] red
> > hat annoucement about eCos drop".
> 
> More generally; running an attachment on an email is ill
> advised, especially when it came from someone you don't
> know personally - like an email list!
> 
> Better yet, use Linux which doesn't suffer from these concerns :-)
> 
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