viruses

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Harry,

I think you have an infected computer because
no one else is receiving these viruses.

I think what is happening is that your computer
unbeknownst to you has a malicious program
installed which has access to your address 
book, probably in Outlook Express, and is
periodically sending out viruses to the 
addresses in the address book.

On a possibly related subject, I discarded 
3 viruses 2 days ago which had been 
automatically flagged to me by the pairlist.net 
software. One of the viruses showed the 
sender's address to be 
ghetto2-owner@whathelps....

Harry, are you using Outlook Express? This
popular email program is known to get infected 
by various malicious viruses or worms which 
replicate by using the host's address book.

Is austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net one of the
addresses in your address book?

You write: > They have all come through AGL 

Look a little closer. You will see that they DONT
come from austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net, 
rather they are coming from 
austin-ghetto-list-administrator@pairlist.net

This would be an automatic bounce by the
pairlist.net software back to the sender of
an email with a virus in it. That's why only
you are receiving your own email bouncing
back to you. And why no one else is receiving
them.

Hope this helps.

Mike the manager 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf@ev1.net>
To: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:09 AM
Subject: viruses


> Beware all you ghetto survivors.
> 
> In less than 3 hours, I've received 4 different virus mails (from 9:28 
> pm yesterday to 12:14 this morning).
> 
> They have all come through AGL and have had the addresses of Wayne 
> Johnson, Margot McGann, and Powell, among others. Subjects were: "New 
> Changes, " "Document," "Hello," and "Hi."
> 
> Watch out for the ones with attachments and no text.
> 
> Take care,
> Harry
>