[NHCOLL-L:528] RE: Virus warning about e-mail to this group

[Christopher A. Norris]

Hi, Bobbie

No attachment on my e-mail, but it looks like my mailer tried to translate
something which may be a program; it included it in the body of the e-mail,
below the sender's signature. No ill effects suffered yet, and my virus
scan has picked up nothing.

Chris Norris



At 03:37 PM 4/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
>My version of this notice did NOT have an attachment ABOVE the title line.
>Are you certain that when it was sent to NHCOLL members that it had an
>attachment to it ?
>
>Could others respond and indicate whether they have an attachment to this
>NHCOLL announcement ?
>
>Thanks. Quite concerned, Bobbie
>
>Roberta Faul-Zeitler
>Executive Director
>Association of Systematics Collections
>1725 K Street NW, Suite 601
>Washington DC 20006
>Tel. (202) 835-9050
>FAX (202) 835-7334
>Email: faulzeitler at ascoll.org
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
>> [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Gerald Noonan
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:15 PM
>> To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
>> Subject: [NHCOLL-L:526] Virus warning about e-mail to this group
>>
>>
>> 	On my computer I have Norton AntiVirus set to scan each
>> incoming e-mail
>> for viruses. It notified me that an attachment to a message sent to this
>> group had a virus. The message header apparently read New Publication
>> --Murray's Museums Their History and Their Use. The Norton  alert notice
>> said that the virus was in attachment unk0000.unk to the above
>> message and
>> that the virus was something called a WScript.kakWorm. I had Norton
>> antivirus delete the entire e-mail message and attachment so I can't
>> provide any more information. People might want to be very careful about
>> opening the attachment to anything that has a title similar to the one
>> given above.
>> *************************************************
>> * Gerald R. Noonan Ph.D., Curator of Insects,                    *
>> * Milwaukee Public Museum                                               *
>> * 800 W.
>> Wells
>>          *
>> * Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233                                           *
>> *
>> carabid at .mpm.edu
>>            *
>> * voice (414) 278-2762
>>             *
>> * fax (414)
>> 278-6100                                                            *
>> *************************************************
>>
>
>
>
Dr Chris Norris
Curatorial Associate
Department of Mammalogy
American Museum of Natural History

Tel. 212-769-5475
Department website: http://research.amnh.org/mammalogy/index.html
Personal webpage: http://research.amnh.org/mammalogy/norris/index.html
Visiting the collections: http://research.amnh.org/mammalogy/visit.html
Destructive sampling:
http://research.amnh.org/mammalogy/destructive_sampling.html