Klarinet Archive - Posting 000296.txt from 2001/09

From: fred.sheim@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Virus
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:34:06 -0400

It wasn't an attachment. It just said the inbox was infected, and not able
to be cleaned. I don't know WHAT happened. BTW, I use Eudora lite as my
mail client.

Fred

At 05:09 PM 9/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
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>> From: <fred.sheim@-----.net>
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>> > My Norton antivirus program caught the VBS.Haptime.A@-----. I think
>it
>> > came in with an email. Basically, my in mailbox was wiped out.
>> > Fortunately I had a backup from 9/3. Anybody know anything about this,
>or
>> > did it happen to anyone else?
>
>Wait - I misread. My apologies.
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>If your Norton anti-virus caught the VBS.Haptime.A=mm, then it deleted it
>(unless you overrode all the safeguards and ran the attachment anyway).
>Something else happened.
>
>I personally have my Nortons configured to _delete_ the attachment, not just
>quarantine it.
>
>Mark C.
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