[bogofilter] Windows users HEADS UP: worm infection

[Manvendra Bhangui]

Serious suggestion to the user whose PC has got infected is

"Upgrade to Linux"

Regards ..
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 18:05, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> someone from people who are or used to be on this list and were/are
> subscribed with a Windows mailer appears to have fallen prey to some
> virus. I have just received a bounce that accuses me of having sent a
> "Nervous_illnesses.com" file to Greg Louis - and I'm 100% confident I
> haven't sent him such a file.
> 
> Given that my only contacts with Greg Louis have been about bogofilter,
> I am not sending such worms, given that current Windows malware scans
> the computer for addresses and appears to have found both mine and
> Greg's on the same computer, it is likely that a readers' computer is
> infected.
> 
> Please update your virus scanner from the manufacturer's site and scan
> your computer for worms. Be sure to use Windows Update regularly, in the
> third week of each month at the latest. Consider switching your mailer
> to a safer product that makes you less vulnerable to accidentally
> running a worm and configuring the mailer safely, for instance, let it
> show the plain text part of a plain/HTML combined mail.
-- 
Regards Manny

"Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity."        
 - Dennis Ritchie