"Worm" on the loose! [RE-wrenches]

[Michael Welch, Home Power]

Please, I would rather not post virus info to this list. While this particular virus is not a hoax, most virus warnings are hoaxes, spread unknowingly by good-intentioned folks.

I also want to correct one misstatement I made in my email to Allan which he quoted in his message to this list. SirCam can mine addresses from Outlook address books.

Allan Sindelar wrote at 01:03 PM 07/26/2001 -0600:
  
>Colin got it from me. It's a recent, fast-acting worm. Don't open it. It
>spreads itself randomly, so I couldn't warn you. For more info and a tool to
>remove it, go to
>http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
>This link courtesy of Michael Welch. Read on for more, from yesterday:
>
>Allan Sindelar, Positive Energy, Inc. wrote at 10:10 AM 07/25/2001 -0600:
>  >Michael, should I post this to the wrenches list?
>>
>>I found out this morning that I have a "worm" virus in my computer, that
>replicates by e-mail. You may now have it too. Travis and Ian Woofenden
>have. I was able to successfully delete it, using a fix I downloaded from
>Symantec. I have attached the fix file to this message, in case you got it
>too.
>
>No, please do not post. That worm gets sent to email addresses that it finds
>in your browser's cache, not to addresses in the address book for your email
>program. So, most of the wrenches will not have gotten it.
>
>By the way, since last Friday I have gotten over 200 of those virus
>messages. Yet I remain uninfected because I know not to open potentially
>infected attachments. Plus, I have my message size set low enough that they
>were left on the server for me to delete without ever having made it to my
>attachments folder.
>
>Michael Welch

  
Michael Welch
  
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