[NHCOLL-L:541] RE: Virus warning about e-mail to this group

[Rich Rabeler]

Hi:

I did not notice an attachment when I read my copy of NH-COLL 523 with
Outlook 2000 - I know that I did not open one.  After all of the messages
came through about the situation, I updated my virus scan and found the
virus.

Since I had been told by the Virus specailists here at the U of M that one
could not "get" a virus from e-mail unless you opened an attachment, this
one kinda bothers me.

Rich Rabeler,
University of Michigan Herbarium

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Diana Hobart Dicus
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: faulzeitler at ascoll.org
> Cc: carabid at mpm.edu; nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: [NHCOLL-L:537] RE: Virus warning about e-mail to this group
>
>
> My version did not have an attachment.
>
> Roberta Faul-Zeitler 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                                                            *
> > > *************************************************
> > >
>