[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: FW: possible virus on List

[MRAIHI Marouen]

Yes
That email was not sent from Andy Computer but from a compuer in France.
(France - Alsace - Strasbourg - Est-videocommunication IP= 62.129.182.58)

Marouen

On September 21, 5:09 pm Andy Carvin <acarvin at edc.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It appears some virus is spoofing my address and sending out a message
> to the list; Bruno Oudet and I were just trying to figure it out. It's
> not actually coming from my computer (I use a Mac, and it's generally
> virus-safe) but is coming from someone else's infected email account
> that had my email address in their contacts list. It then forged my
> address. So there's nothing I can do about it on my computer since it's
> not originating from me; is it possible to increase the security on the
> Mailman server to detect viruses?
>
> ac
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Carll, PhD wrote:
> >  Clarification to my prior email, as I did receive Robert's post back
> >  from the list.
> >
> >   However, I received the one below from the list with a zip file
> >  attachment. As I never open zip files as often they are viruses,
> >  thought I would post to alert others to the possibility.  Perhaps
> >  Andy Carvin can reply as to whether he sent this message with the zip
> >  file attachment to the plenary list.
> >
> >  Elizabeth
> >
> >  Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> >  Focal Point
> >  International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> >  Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> >  NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> >  Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> >  Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> >  ecarll at optonline.net
> >
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]On
> >  Behalf Of Acarvin
> >  Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:16 AM
> >  To: Plenary
> >  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Site changes
> >
> >
> >
> >  Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons.
> >  Password is
>
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> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org
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