Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] OT: someone has a virus

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:22:30 +0000
On Monday 26 Jan 2004 9:20 pm, Blue Boar wrote:
> Olivier Biot wrote:
> > The only thing we know is that someone watched an Ethereal mailing
> > list some time, and posted some messages to this list, and now is
> > bugged with a virus. Maybe this user is not even subscribed anymore
> > to one of the Ethereal mailing lists.
>
> It might not even be that.  Many viruses now comb through browser
> caches too, so anyone who might have viewed the archives (are email
> addresses shown in any of the archives?) could have sent it as well.

A new virus, as of today. Rated High-Outbreak by Mcafee:
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100983

(Only affects Windows, of course.)

-- 
Richard Urwin