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From:	"Gregg C Levine" <drwho8 AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
Date:	Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:41:49 -0400
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Hello from Gregg C Levine
Can't help you more beyond what the good guys at Symantec said, Randall. As
far as I am concerned, outside of one school, and the Feds, they are the
experts.
Gregg C Levine drwho8 AT worldnet DOT att DOT net
"Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages


> Hi,
>
> I might help to know this is the "W32 DOT Bugbear AT mm" worm. It has been
> spreading a lot lately. In today's batch I received 3 copies under
> different names (supposedly from Christopher Faylor, Gareth Pearce and
> Elfyn McBratney), each with different contents and different attachment
names.
>
> Here's what Symantec has to say about this worm:
> <http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32 DOT bugbear AT mm DOT html>
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 14:25 2002-10-13, Michael A Chase wrote:
> >On 14 Oct 2002 06:36:02 +1000 Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:04, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> >
> > > > Folks, don't roar at me, but I am seeing a number of messages arrive
> > here,
> > > > infected. One came with a message via Robert Collins, twice,
> >
> > > Can you point me at the message with the virus? And the virus? I email
> > > from UNIX, so am *very* surprised at this.
> >
> >Like spam, most common email viruses forge the 'from' address.  I am
seeing
> >a few of these too, but, as Chris said, they aren't coming through the
> >Cygwin server.
>
>
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