Post #97267 by Captain Ambience on Sat, Jun 19, 2004 3:27 PM

Just got this e-mail:

Please accept my apologies for the two emails that were sent this week to the Tikievents mailing list with virus' attached

With over 2500 members on this list you can imagine I received many automated responses and many irate emails and many unsubscribes

here is what happened

a beagle virus captured my email address probably from an email I sent out to someone else who was already infected. It then sent an email to my server which has an open gate for email commands from me. The server which runs my list then passed the emails along. Neither my computer nor my server were infected. Both of us are running virus software. In fact, I am on a mac and the beagle virus does not work on a Mac. The open access has now been closed preventing this sort of thing from ever happening again. It was an oversight on the part of my server company and had never happened in the five years that I have been using them and using their email list service.

(all you techs out there please do not reply to this explaining exactly what I did and did not explain properly about how this all works. the above explanation is close enough)

Anyone out there who received and opened these two emails (one was titled incoming message) and is not on a Mac may be infected. The virus will get into your email address book, capture random addresses and send itself out using those email addresses.

sorry

Otto von Stroheim