Hello again,
My apologies to the IPC. But it has to be through this forum that Mr.Tong
knows me. I personally have never sent him anything. I guess from now on,
any email with an attachment from an unidentifed person will be
automatically deleted!
Thanks for the heads up from all who responded.
Bill Kasprzak
Moog Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcmaster, Michael [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] virus
>
> I think it's because the e-mail it didn't come through Technet but
> directly
> from Mr Tong. I have my e-mail program setup to siphon off all Technet
> mail
> into a separate folder, then read it when I have time. The virus
> containing
> e-mail was not in my Technet inbox but my regular one, as if the sender
> was
> replying off-line. The subject line was also different which means we
> received different e-mails not copies of the same one.
>
> I know I've noticed a change recently when replying to Technet postings.
> It
> used to be that when you replied the address line would include both
> Technet
> and the original sender. That's no longer the case. Now only Technet
> shows
> up. While this is a little inconvenient if you wanted to do an off-line
> reply (all you had to do was delete the technet address) I suspect this
> change was made for exactly this reason. I'm willing to bet that those of
> us who received the virus posted to Technet on the relevant topic prior to
> the change. That's the only way I can see for the insidious Mr. Tong
> (man,
> is that a name out of a James Bond movie or what) to get all of our e-mail
> addresses.
>
> Maybe Keach can enlighten us?
>
> > ----------
> > From: Kasprzak, Bill (sys) USX[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Reply To: TechNet E-Mail Forum.
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:42 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [TN] virus
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I cannot believe that this sort of thing got sent to me through the IPC.
> > So,
> > my question is, how and why this happened?
> >
> > If these kind of things cannot be filtered out, then membership to any
> IPC
> > email forum might be a bad idea.
> >
> > So, what's the story?
> >
> > Bill Kasprzak
> > Moog Inc.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stephen Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:12 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: [TN] virus
> > >
> > > I got it too, the subject was Re: Re: [TN] Lead Free Soldering
> > >
> > > This is the W32/Badtrans@MM virus, VERY nasty virus!!
> > >
> > > Once running, the trojan attempts to mail the victim's IP Address to
> the
> > > author. Once this information is obtained, the author can connect to
> the
> > > infected system via the Internet and steal personal information such
> as
> > > usernames, and passwords. In addition, the trojan also contains a
> > > keylogger program which is capable of capturing other vital
> information
> > > such as credit card and bank account numbers and passwords.
> > >
> > > -Steve Gregory-
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The subject of this mail is different for each individual thatīs
> > > getting
> > > mail from this friendly MR.TONG. Seems that it knows about the
> > > individual
> > > subjects one has used for this forum.
> > >
> > > Wolfgang
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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