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From:	"Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: Viruses being transported with cygwin messages
Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:39:12 -0400
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Tim Prince wrote:
> Earthlink gave me immediate automatic acknowledgment that these were viruses 
> originated by one of their customers. 

Sorry for the extra noise, but in case anyone's trying to
track down the sources, I also got a message claiming to
be from Christopher Faylor (though with the wrong address).
It also went through Earthlink, as the headers show:

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Return-Path: <cgf AT jannino DOT com>
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	for <gsw AT agere DOT com>; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
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	id 180mXM-0004o6-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:28:21 -0700
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT jannino DOT com>
Subject:  Re: bash 2.05a command completion spec bug
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Here was the entire message (my company server apparently
nabbed the actual virus on the way in, but I'm updating my
antivirus just in case...):

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Command completion specs causes bash 2.05a specifically *and* Cygwin
>in general to behave "poorly." By "poo 
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-Jerry Williams

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