To the list. In tonight mail there were 3 messages in reply to messages I had sent. All three were from the same sender and all 3 contained the tell tale identification of a virus. The sender was listed as: grayston@comteck.com (Paul Thomas) The tell tale identification is a line added after the message that the reply is to and the line reads: "Take a look to the attachment" Should you receive a message with this line delete it immediately and under no circumstances open it. The virus sends replies to the messages that you receive and add the tell tale line and the attachment which contains the virus. Jerry Dittman Boonsboro, MD

I got this virus Monday night. We found a fix at the following address and got it cleaned up in a matter of an hour or so. http://bootheel.tucows.com/files4/fixmtx.exe Thank goodness, I caught it while it was in progress and stopped it before it got too far. It did cause a little bit of damage to my computer though. Not serious just a couple of files missing. For some reason my anti-virus program didn't catch it so it might be smart to run the fix even if you think you weren't infected. I don't even remember opening the attachment at any time recently so I still don't know how I got it or when. I restarted my computer Monday night after changing to a new keyboard. It kicked in the moment I accessed my e-mail which was almost immediately after restarting. Big pain to clean up!!!!!!!!! Carolyn Caplinger genbuff@atlascomm.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <DittDad@aol.com> To: <OHPERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:11 PM Subject: [OHPerry] Virus > To the list. > > In tonight mail there were 3 messages in reply to messages > I had sent. All three were from the same sender and all > 3 contained the tell tale identification of a virus. > > The sender was listed as: > grayston@comteck.com (Paul Thomas) > > The tell tale identification is a line added after the message > that the reply is to and the line reads: > "Take a look to the attachment" > > Should you receive a message with this line delete it > immediately and under no circumstances open it. > The virus sends replies to the messages that you receive > and add the tell tale line and the attachment which contains > the virus. > > Jerry Dittman > Boonsboro, MD > > > ==== OHPERRY Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from OHPERRY-L, send mail to OHPERRY-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave OHPERRY-D, do the same thing with OHPERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com. >