S. Ring has badtrans virus - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Nov 2001

It drove me nuts as the work sys is W95 and outlookdistress.
I wanted to summary delete it but Norton antivirus would pitch 
a fit if I even touched the mail.  I have the outlook features 
turned off but the antivirus is too efficient.  only solution was
to isolate the machine just in case(pull net connection, drop 
modem) and purge mail.  What a PITA!  Wishing I used VMS 
at work or at least linux.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hellige &lt;jhellige(a)earthlink.net&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: S. Ring has badtrans virus

...
     It was sent
to me 'personally', ie not as a classiccmp post.  Since it
was an unsolicited attachment from an unacknowledged source, it filed it
in /dev/nul. 
 I got it as well but followed the same logic you did.  I also 
received the virus once over the weekend as well, but it wasn't from 
a list subscriber.  I don't use Outlook on my Mac's and don't have 
autopreview turned on when I'm using it under NT.

 Jeff
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