virus reminder

[Thomas Sheehan]

Thanks for the heads-up on this, Andy!

I really appreciate all the work that you do to help keep pianotech up and
running!

All the best,

Tom Sheehan
NYC Chapter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew M. Rudoff" <andy@rudoff.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: virus reminder


> Pianotech readers:
>
> I have some filters on this mailing list which catch attachments that
> appear to be Windows executables (programs that Windows allows to do
> anything to your system).  I usually catch one or two virus posts a
> week that were headed out on the pianotech list.  Today I have caught
> 12 so far.  So some email virus is making the rounds big time.  I just
> thought I'd drop a note out to everyone to remind you to be careful
> when you open email attachments.  Some email programs don't show you
> the suffix on the attachment, but if the suffix is something like:
>
> .exe
> .com
> .scr
> .pif
> .lnk
>
> then you should be very suspicious of the message.
>
> The virus tries to trick you into opening the attachment by forging
> the header fields.  So the mail might appear to come from someone you
> know, or even appear to be a reply to a subject you've sent mail on.
> Sometimes the body of the message contains a short message like:
>
> Hi! How are you
>
> I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
> See you later. Thanks
>
> But I've seen all sorts of tricky text like "Thought you might find
> this funny..." and so on.
>
> So watch out for these messages and I highly recommend using one of
> the many anti-virus products available.
>
> -andy
>