Folks,
A subscriber notified me that the NCC
Washington Update in yesterday's messages was flagged by her Norton AntiVirus
software as containing an unnamed virus. Norton caught the bug before it
infected her system.
One of the reasons the A&A List was
reconfigured to strip attachments was to minimize the impact of evil macros in
attached documents. Not being at Miami University, the host of the list,
I'm not sure what other anti-virus efforts the Listserv software goes
through.
The Terms of Participation notes that
reports of viruses should not go to the list (they're off topic; one hopes that
people have other channels to learn about things like viruses, and more
significantly, the warnings are usually hoaxes). I'm making an exception
here because there is a known, confirmed virus that is going around and creating
fair havoc on many systems. I know of at least one major agency that is
refusing all email to protect itself.
Please be sure to update your antivirus
software. I'm doing this daily from Norton. While they normally
don't allow this morning than once a week (to balance load), they're providing
updates almost every day right now.
Richard Pearce-Moses
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