FYI.  I just scanned my harddrive using Command Anti Virus, I had updated
the defiles earlier this week, and nothing was found.  So I don't think it
was the posting I had made earler, it came up clean when I openned it.
However, I know nothing about how viruses are written.
I made the posting to the group about the above 'The real story' as a
service.  I don't know where it came from, but when I get a virus out of the
blue like that I try and let other prople know so that they can avoid any
potential problems.

Ron
Ronald R. Darling, Manager, Systems & Programs
Epidemiology and Cancer Control/
New Mexico Tumor Registry
U.N.M. Health Sciences Center, CRF Bldg
Albuquerque, NM  87131-5306

-----Original Message-----
From: Emerson, Tom # El Monte [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 3:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Beware: FW: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The
REALstory!


I suspect he was either a "direct recipient" (in which hp3000-l was a
co-recipient) or this was related to the URL Ron sent a short while ago --
the "attachement", purely text, was actually empty [viewed with quickview]
(or else it was "emptied" by our anti-V software)

Actually, now that I think of it, I suspect the "this is too cute to pass
up" WAS the "worm" in action, meaning Ron's computer was ALREADY infected at
the time the message was sent.  [or it could be a piggy-backed/hybrid --
darn shame these virus writers are wasting their obviously well-developed
programming talents on something as perverse as a virus or worm...]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Beware: FW: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The
> REALstory!
>
>
> Ron Darling wrote:
>
> > My PC virus protection software detected the
> w95/hybris.worm virus when I
> > tried to open the attachment.
>
> i'm surprised that attachment got through.  i thought raven
> 'ate' worms
> :-)      - d
>
> --
> Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
> 925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
>
> "Unix _is_ user friendly.
> It's just very selective about who its friends are.
> And sometimes even best friends have fights."
>
> >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
>