Re: Re; More Virus (NAC)

[Fred & Mel Zimmermann <fredmelzimm@domain.elided>]

I was out of town this last week on business. Went to a convention in  Las Vegas.
Drove a rent a Pig on Monday and returned last night. I am a fairly new
participant(mostly observer) to the Digest. When I checked my email, I observed
first hand both the blessings and curses of the Digest. I had 986 unread messages.
But ! The downloading took forever. Before anyone gets grumpy, this was not due
directly to the Alfa Digest. Norton intercepted about 30 or so messages with a
virus. There were at least 10 with direct Alfa specific titles. To add to the
sport and entertainment value of the download process, at least half of the emails
were received twice and around 30 were received 4 times. Whether this is the
servers fault or is virus related, I don't know. Point being, I also received
emails that were Alfa specific. Sure am glad that the Norton program was up to
date.
Fred Zimmermann

John Hertzman wrote:

> Both Mike Nakamura and Joe Cantrell posted notes in AD8-1180 on new/current
> virus activity. I have up-to-date Norton anti-virus on my system, and in the
> last several days it has been quarantining far more messages addressed to me
> with both Klez and Yaha infections than at anytime recently. In addition,
> yesterday and today I received two convincingly Alfa-specific messages which
> did NOT get stopped by Norton antivirus, and which had attachments but no text
> message. I did not open either of the attachments but did send replies saying
> that I had not done so and was not going to open anything unless I knew in
> advance that it was not bogus. On one of the replies I got a message back that
> my outgoing reply was infected and had been purged; on the other of the
> replies I got a 'permanent fatal error' message that the address from which it
> ostensibly had come was unknown.
>
> Both cases were, as Joe Cantrell mentioned in his post, highly Alfa-specific;
> the first was ostensibly from digest-regular Cordova Ralph (Rfetsch) with a
> subject line about Tom Sahines' ARA hotline, the other was ostensibly from
> 'Veloce' with a subject line 'Borrani wheels".
>
> I am somewhere near the bottom end of barely computer-literate; I know enough
> to keep the latest Norton anti-virus up to date, and do so, but that is about
> it. If anyone wants to offer a next-stage tutorial for people like me, or to
> point us in the right direction, I would welcome it. Beyond that, I'm deleting
> as quickly as I can anything that comes in past Norton with an attachment
> unless I know in advance from someone I know and trust that it is genuine.
>
> John H.
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