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The irony is thick here. Apparently, one or more spammers have been infected
with email virii; there has been traffic about this on spamcom.net for more
than a week. Think about what this means. Some of the pariahs of net life
are becoming true pariahs, spreading infection on a scale that almost no one
else is capable of. Since a large number of the recipient email addresses
are no longer valid, the email admins on some receiving systems will see the
email, and could carelessly infect their own email server with such a virus
(I realize that this is mostly an Exchange problem). Furthermore, said
pariahs are probably among the least careful of netizens. This could be
analogous to a number of other historic problems.

I am reminded of a story (which I cannot substantiate, so it should be taken
with appropriate skepticism), from when telemarketing equipment would dial a
number, and if the there was no answer, or the answerer hung up on the
recording, would redial the number. Allegedly, one such telemarketer
effectively shut down the phone system of the emergency room of a large
hospital in a major city.

In any case, the fall out of this could change the popular opinion of spam
from being a relatively harmless nuisance to being a clear and present
danger.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Barnes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Unsolicited e-mail


YES, if it came from sexyfun.net.  I believe that is the virus so don't open
the
attachment.