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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <emcb_exposure AT hotmail DOT com>
To: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <1034541363 DOT 5133 DOT 13 DOT camel AT lifelesswks><006601c272eb$5750f680$855a580c AT who><1034541363 DOT 5133 DOT 13 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20021013145544 DOT 02c86668 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:33:54 +0100
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I for one would like to know how that happend. If its from hotmail then fare
do's, sorry. If it was from elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk thats impossible because
all I can send through my mailgate is .txt or tars/gz's files...even then
all archives are extracted/scanned.

What month???

Elfyn

----- Original Message -----
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 11:03 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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