Re: Alert--Virus on file from Steve Wasserman!!

From: M. S. Burrows (MBurrows@Centuryinter.net)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 11:50:55 PDT


You are right. I only read the few messages and wrongly assumed it was
intentional. will wait for the verdict before posting name and info.

Melanie B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charkes, Susan" <susan.charkes@dechert.com>
To: <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: re: Alert--Virus on file from Steve Wasserman!!

> It is entirely possible that the sender/creator of an attachment does not
> know that it contains a Word virus. If one does not have an up-to-date
virus
> program, there is no way know of knowing. Viruses like to attack files and
> they like to do this silently so that the carrier unwittingly infects
other
> people's files. That's how they spread. Before anyone flames this guy or
> sends his name to his ISP or posts him on a hackers list, you might want
to
> do more investigation and at least give him a chance to defend himself. He
> *may* be perfectly innocent.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Susan Charkes 1717 Arch Street
> Systems Librarian 4000 Bell Atlantic Tower
> Dechert Price & Rhoads Philadelphia, PA 19103
> susan.charkes@dechert.com 215-994-2156
>



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