Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [195.92.67.76] From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "Randall R Schulz" Cc: References: <1034541363.5133.13.camel@lifelesswks><006601c272eb$5750f680$855a580c@who><1034541363.5133.13.camel@lifelesswks> <5.1.0.14.2.20021013145544.02c86668@pop3.cris.com> Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:33:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2002 23:35:18.0400 (UTC) FILETIME=[306EC800:01C27311] I for one would like to know how that happend. If its from hotmail then fare do's, sorry. If it was from elfyn@exposure.org.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 To: 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.Bugbear@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: > > > 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 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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/