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Re: Virus Warning for email by Tomas Garza

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  • Subject: [mg31736] Re: Virus Warning for email by Tomas Garza
  • From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:14:08 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I got a message yesterday from an unknown source. It had no text in it and
my antivirus detected and neutralized a virus in the attachment
(W32/BadTrans@MM ) , so I received no harm. However, apparently what it did
was to take all addresses in my address book and send a copy of itself to
each of them with my name as sender. I was unaware of the problem until I
started receiving phone calls from people who had received the message and
assumed I had sent it. I'm awfully sorry for the inconvenience, and I only
hope everybody concerned has a competent antivirus system installed.

[Tomas is not the only member of the mailing list that is having this
 problem.  I urge you all to watch out for attachments and virues and
 if you can avoid using the software that is vulnerable to viruses, do that.
 Mail from the MathGroup never contains attachments.  I do not accept mail
 with attachments and do not use Microsoft products. --- moderator]

Tomas Garza
Mexico City

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Franzius" <Roland.franzius at uos.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg31736] Virus Warning for email by Tomas Garza


> Somebody is using Tomas Garzas account sending trojans. Beware. Switch
> off Java ability in your newsreader.
>
> As you see Tomas Garzas adress has been faked with a leading underscore.
>
> This is the email header I just got
>
>
> =========================================
>
> Return-Path: <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
> Received: from omecihuatl.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
> (omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [131.173.17.35])
>         by ometecutli.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id
> fARGZbU06527
>         for <Roland.Franzius at uos.de>; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:35:38 +0100
> Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (dfproxy01.prodigy.net.mx
> [148.235.168.56] (may be forged))
>         by omecihuatl.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id
> fARGZaf26474
>         for <Roland.Franzius at uos.de>; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:35:36 +0100
> Received: from aol.com
>  (customer-148-235-185-227.uninet.net.mx [148.235.185.227])
>  by SMTP.Prodigy.Net.mx (Sun Internet Mail Server
> sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9)
>  with SMTP id <0GNG005AYWPIUY at SMTP.Prodigy.Net.mx>; Tue,
>  27 Nov 2001 10:34:34 -0600 (CST)
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:34:34 -0600 (CST)
> Date-warning: Date header was inserted by SMTP.Prodigy.Net.mx
> From: Tomas Garza <_tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg31736] Re: [mg26681] Re: InverseLaplaceTransform
> To: Roland.Franzius at uos.de
> Message-id: <0GNG005AZWPIUY at SMTP.Prodigy.Net.mx>
> MIME-version: 1.0
> Content-type: multipart/related;        type="multipart/alternative";
>         boundary="====_ABC1234567890DEF_===="
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-priority: Normal
> X-Unsent: 1
> Status:
> X-Mozilla-Status: 8011
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> X-UIDL: 36dbedb6000006c3
>
> --====_ABC1234567890DEF_====
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>          boundary="====_ABC0987654321DEF_===="
>
> --====_ABC0987654321DEF_====
> Content-Type: text/html;
>          charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>
> <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> <iframe src=cid:EA4DMGBP9p height=0 width=0>
> </iframe></BODY></HTML>
> --====_ABC0987654321DEF_====--
>
> --====_ABC1234567890DEF_====
> Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
>          name="SETUP.DOC.scr"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID: <EA4DMGBP9p>
>
> ==============================================
>
> --
> Roland Franzius
>
>



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