[meteorite-list] Virus Alert... DO NOT OPEN "Mull Collection" !!!

From: Jerry A. Wallace <jwal2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:56 2004
Message-ID: <3D9F2B17.8010406_at_swbell.net>

Folks,

Last night an email timed at 2:31 CST was sent to the Meteorite Central
List.
The sender's email address was <meteorites_at_t-onlive.de> . The name of
the sender listed in the header
is "Dieter". The body of the email is actually a 'forward' of an old Rob
Wesel email titled "Mull Collection"
which he sent to the list on Wed, 10 July 2002.

The email contained the new 'worm' known as W32.BugBear_at_mm. Neither of
the above named
individuals are responsible (directly) for this email (especially Rob)
in that Dieter's computer evidently
contracted the virus due to a lack of current anti-virus protection.

The virus (worm) has the ability to replicate itself and send out emails
to anyone listed in the address book
on that individual's computer.

I sincerely hope that everyone on the list had currently updated
anti-virus software installed on their computers.
It's obvious, of course the Dieter didn't.

I highly recommend the use of Symantec Norton Anti-Virus software. It
has saved me numerous episodes
of having to manually remove viruses, worms, trojan horses, meteorongs,
etc., from my computer system.

For those who need more information concerning this particular virus
(worm), please go to the following
site.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear_at_mm.html

Keep your virus protection updated; it sure is cheaper and faster than
repairs.

Best of luck to all of you,

Jerry Wallace
Odessa, Texas
Received on Sat 05 Oct 2002 02:10:31 PM PDT