Hi all, detailed infos about the badtransvirus can be found here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.ht ml Hope this helps. cu - Markus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Viner" <rossviner@shaw.ca> To: <police@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: [Police] confusion over virus and attachments
The e-mails I received did not indicate there was an attachment - BUT THERE WAS. I suspect what has been happening here, is some people did not see an "icon" therefore assumed there was no attachment. But when asked to open anything, they said yes - not thinking it was in reference to an attachment. To further the issue, they MAY have settings that automatically open attachments (hidden or not).
I know some disagree, but I still think you have to ACTIVATE a virus. That is at least open a file, that contains the virus. Outside of small lesson I learned a little while back, I've never been infected. And I open all kinds of e-mail. But if it prompts me at all to open anything else, I say "no" and delete the mail immediately.
As for the virus I encountered I still never got infected as when prompted to open the attachment (even though there appeared to me no attachment) I declined, deleting the e-mail immediately. Lesson in point, if you are suspicious at all of an e-mail, that acts or looks strangely at all, simply decline any prompting asking you to open it (or anything else), and permanently delete the mail in question.
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