[Jacob-list] VIRUS answers

[Mark and Cathie Williams]

I've figured out what's going on with the virus issue discussed earlier this
week. Several subscribers have been sending email that contains a new type
of virus.  This one only infects certain software packages, so it's received
less media attention than others.  The scarey thing, though is that it's
embedded in the message rather than as an attachment.  I would strongly
encourage everybody using Internet Explorer 5 and/or Outlook to read up on
this and install the necessary patches to prevent its spread.

Please take the time to read through the article at
http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2390955,00.html .  The virus
that I'm seeing today seems to be a mutation of the Bubbleboy Virus
discussed in this article, and I think this one is more harmful.  From the
little bit of programming that I understand, I think this one will cause
Windows to close and delete some files.

Anyhow, the mystery is solved.  I just hope those who have the virus will
take care of it before it spreads further.

- Mark Williams
  Jacob-list administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: Edd Bissell <bissell at usit.net>
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:10 AM
Subject: [Jacob-list] computor problesm


>Two different people have written to me about a virus allert from my
posts -
>I email from two different locations - here at home where I am today and at
>my business -=  both have the same address. I can receive the same messages
>and send out from each computer - the one here uses Eudora and the one at
>the store uses Outlook [or something like that]  What I want to know is
>there at problem with this message this a.m. - that means the problem is
>here I suppose.  I have a premade signature on the one here at the house
and
>you can tell the difference by that.  Of course I have no idea of what I am
>supposed to do if there is a problem.  Anyway I was sitting on the pourch
>looking out at the beautiful East Tennessee a.m. and all of my Jacobs while
>drinking my coffee = also thinking how much I am going to miss them when I
>have them sold.  Guess that is just part of life isn't it.
>
>===
>      Edd Bissell = Hidden View Farm = Rare and Primitive Breed Animals
>Scottish Blackface=Jacob=Barbados=Texas Dall=Navajo-Churro=Churro Hairsheep
>     ====Tennessee Nervous Meat Goats =  = Great Pyrenees LGDs=====
>                  = bissell at usit.net = 423-475-4844 =
>         1435 Collins Road - New Market, Tennessee U.S.A. 37820
>
>
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