----- Original Message -----
From: Vera M. Britto <fiatlux@umich.edu>
To: PSN <psn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: Your Question on: spam/virus problem (fwd)
>
> Hi. The messages you have been receiving are the result of a global virus
> storm that is being caused by the W32/SirCam virus. This virus sends
> copies of one's personal files to everyone in one's Outlook Express
> address book. The virus continues to send out e-mail until it has been
> erraticated, and it usually (but not always) generates a bogus return
> e-mail address to cover its tracks (making you replies only marginally
> affective). It also has a destructive payload.
>
> As long as you don't open the attachments, you will not be infected.
> Delete these messages immediately.
>
> Of our supported e-mail programs (Pine, Mulberry and Eudora), only Eudora
> has filtering capabilities and even that just moves the message from your
> Inbox to your trash (which you still must manually empty). So, there is
> no practical approach for filtering these messages automatically.
>
> For more information, see:
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~virus-busters/sircam.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff Cohen
> ITCS Online Consulting
>
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