From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Sun May 28 20:33:11 2000
Subject:RE: [Voce] Virus Alert -- PLEASE READ!

Re: [Voce] Virus Alert -- PLEASE READ!RG,

No there are currently no women in the discussion group -- as far as I know.
(There are about a half dozen members who are anonymous, or have never
responded to the original charter e-mail.)

I'm not sure about the virus status re: Macs. All of the infected files
were in my Windows directory, which would imply that it's IBM-style only.
OTOH, it affected .HTM and .HTA files, which are web-centric and not really
tied to one platform. I don't pretend to be a virus expert. As best as I
can tell, it's not a brand-new virus, so if you have a virus protection
that's current to within about 30 days, you might very well be able to hunt
it down. It did not affect any of the other three computers on my
home-office network, which implies that it arrived on my system fairly
recently.

Best regards,

-BW

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www.ashbysolutions.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Gafner [mailto:rgafner@pressroom.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:33p
To: VoceSupportGroup@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [Voce] Virus Alert -- PLEASE READ!

Guys? No women in the discussion group????

Concerning virus infestation , Is this a problem for Mac OS?

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From: "Bruce Wahler"
To: "Voce Group"
Subject: [Voce] Virus Alert -- PLEASE READ!
Date: Sun, May 28, 2000, 7:34 PM

Bruce's Stationary StationeryGuys,

I just received a virus alert from a website that hosts one of our
members.
It said:
A message you authored has been detected as containing a virus. Please
DO
NOT send any more messages until you have run an anti-virus program on
your
system and then resend the message.

The scanned document was QUARANTINED.

Virus Information:

The attachment att1.htm contained the virus WScript.KakWorm and could
NOT be
repaired.

I ran Norton AV 2000 with the latest signatures, and sure enough, it
found
something. There were three files in my Windows directory that were
infected:

KAK.HTM
{something}.KAK

I deleted them, so I don't know what the {something} is anymore. One of
them had a very long name that was reminiscent of registry keys. If you
have these files, PLEASE DELETE THEM.

The only messages that I have sent in the last 24 hours are (1) a reply
to
the post about the Rotosphere, and (2) a private message to one of our
members. When looking through my sent file, however, I see some very
strange code in the middle of the Voce reply message -- coincidentally,
right where the GO.COM add was in the original message. That leaves two
possibilities: (a) the GO.COM ad had a virus, or (B) the GO.COM ad was
replaced by the virus code.

I am sorry for any trouble this may have caused anyone on the list. I
run
Norton AV on bootup and in the background at all times, and I am puzzled
as
to how the virus got past the checking program. A note to Norton is
probably in order ...

Best regards,

-BW

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Bruce Wahler
Ashby Solutions™
www.ashbysolutions.com
Voce Support Group moderator
978.386.7389
bruce@ashbysolutions.com

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