Re: Windows macro virus
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Dany Vanderroost wrote:
> Dear Sir, Madam,
> I have just received a windows macro virus/virus from you,
That's odd, because debian-devel@lists.debian.org is a mailing list run on a
Debian GNU/Linux machine, which is immune to windows macro virii. The list
software also doesn't rewrite headers to obscure the original sender of the
e-mail.
I'm willing to bet a considerable sum that debian-devel@lists.debian.org
isn't the actual source of the virus, but that instead the virus forged the
From: header in the e-mail you received - a trivial operation.
> Please either change operating systems to something secure,
> undertake to secure your windows machine, or disconnect
> your machine from the internet.
And please realise that for quite some time now virii have been forging
From: lines, and that these sorts of e-mails are utterly useless, and merely
annoying.
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