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Stephen Guerin
I may be wrong, but I doubt Owen sent it. Owen, living in his "Mac-Believe"
world tends not to sully himself with .exe's :-)

Instead, I think a virus spreader/bot posted to the list and faked Owen's
return email address. I get many virus attempts like that a day from spoofed
email addresses I recognize. The bot probably scanned the public archive of
FRIAM and grabbed Owen's email address from his signature. The archives are
not supposed to include the sender's email in the FROM" field. I'll look
into why it may be showing it in the form "stephen.guerin at redfish.com".

I believe the virus was caught on the mailing list server and not
propagated. Let me know if it got through to someone's machine.

-Steve


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Owen Densmore
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Steve's right, no .exe from my pure system.

Owen

On Jan 3, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> I may be wrong, but I doubt Owen sent it. Owen, living in his
> "Mac-Believe"
> world tends not to sully himself with .exe's :-)
>
> Instead, I think a virus spreader/bot posted to the list and faked
> Owen's
> return email address. I get many virus attempts like that a day from
> spoofed
> email addresses I recognize. The bot probably scanned the public
> archive of
> FRIAM and grabbed Owen's email address from his signature. The
> archives are
> not supposed to include the sender's email in the FROM" field. I'll
> look
> into why it may be showing it in the form "stephen.guerin at
> redfish.com".
>
> I believe the virus was caught on the mailing list server and not
> propagated. Let me know if it got through to someone's machine.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> ============================================================
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> Meets Fridays 9AM @ Jane's Cafe
> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
> http://www.friam.org
>



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Bruce Sawhill
Given the location of Dell, I would say all my .exes live in Texas.

Bruce

On Jan 3, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Steve's right, no .exe from my pure system.
>
> Owen
>
> On Jan 3, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>
>> I may be wrong, but I doubt Owen sent it. Owen, living in his
>> "Mac-Believe"
>> world tends not to sully himself with .exe's :-)
>>
>> Instead, I think a virus spreader/bot posted to the list and faked
>> Owen's
>> return email address. I get many virus attempts like that a day from
>> spoofed
>> email addresses I recognize. The bot probably scanned the public
>> archive of
>> FRIAM and grabbed Owen's email address from his signature. The
>> archives are
>> not supposed to include the sender's email in the FROM" field. I'll
>> look
>> into why it may be showing it in the form "stephen.guerin at
>> redfish.com".
>>
>> I believe the virus was caught on the mailing list server and not
>> propagated. Let me know if it got through to someone's machine.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9AM @ Jane's Cafe
>> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
>> http://www.friam.org
>>
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9AM @ Jane's Cafe
> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
> http://www.friam.org
>