Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:42:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: INFECTED  GOAT



if this is that klez worm, it might not even have come from where you
think.  here is a paragraph from symantec.com about klez:

"Because this worm uses a randomly chosen address that it finds on an
infected computer as the "From:" address, numerous cases have been
reported in which users of uninfected computers received complaints that
they sent an infected message to someone else."

dk

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dave Coull wrote:
> Old Goat, if you can read this, the Norton anti-virus
> thingy on my computer stopped a message which came from you. You probably
> didn't even know you had sent
> a message to me, it was probably the virus sending itself.
> Norton quarantined the message, and said the infection
> could not be repaired, so I deleted it.
>
> My wife Keri, who knows more about these things than
> I do, says it was a nasty one that would have eaten my hard drive. Do
> something about it quick! Everybody else, watch out, there's a nasty bug
> about, and apparently
> it can send itself, so by now it's probably not just Goat
> who has the thing.
>
> Dave Coull