email virii

Hi everybody,

Recently I got a few emails asking about this, so: In the past few
weeks the Raw list has received a handful of virus emails, with a
subject like "Hello" and containing an attachment. The reason this is
happening is that there are now virii that spoof the From field, so
they pretend to be sent from a different computer to avoid detection.
It obtains these email addresses by reading your Outlook address book,
so if anybody who's ever received email from you or sent email to you
gets infected, that infected machine is going to spit out a lot of
virus emails pretending to be you.

Some simple tips:

+ Don't ever open an unsolicited attachment. Better yet, don't ever use
Outlook. Better yet, don't ever use Microsoft Windows.
+ Do install anti-virus software and update it regularly.
+ When you receive a virus email, don't respond to the user telling
them, because the chances are 99% that the account you'll contact is
not the infected account, and you'll just clog up even more of the
network with annoying virus-related emails.

Basically, there isn't much you can do about this except protect
yourself. Oh, and take out a hit on Bill Gates.

Best,
Francis