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    1. [BUT] LIST ADMIN : Virus warning
    2. Peter Cook
    3. The latest threat is a variant of W32.Bugbear@mm; a full description can be found at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear.b@ mm.html This variant first surfaced on 4 Jun, so it's very new, but already doing damage !!!!! If case you've forgotten, this is the one that forges the sender's name (and e-mail address) - if you find bounced mail in your box that you did not send, then this virus has probably picked up a junk mailers e-mail address from it's real victim, added you as the sender and sent it off. As most of the junk mail senders e-mail addresses are made up, replies of any sort will get bounced - in this case back to the forged address. A reminder that you CANNOT become infected through e-mails from RootsWeb Lists, but you CAN become infected through mail received directly from other correspondents - and also remember that often the victim does not know about it..

    06/12/2003 02:00:09