In message <1EFFEF972AA7D211BDCE00A024CF8D661867B1@WMH_ITNT3>, PETER
HUDSON <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Just to confirm the existence of a virus in the attachments I sent in error
>to this group. The culprit was a mail sent from our library to one of our
>IT managers. The virus has been distributed around the hospital this
>morning, and now to the rest of the world by myself.
>
>Worryingly, every PC in our organisations has virus checking software on
>board which failed to pick it up. There's either a lesson in this for
>everyone on our site, or it's an extreme example of Murphy' Law in action
>(if it can go wrong it will do, and probably disastrously so).
>
>Peter
>
>Peter Hudson
>Principal Biochemist
>Wrexham Maelor Hospital
>Wales, UK. LL13 7TD
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>
1. Was there a Virus or is this a "wind-up"?!
2. If there was one, what was it?!
3. There should be a filter on the Mailbase that destroys any
posting that has any form of attachment - ie TEXT POSTING ONLY. It is,
as yet, the only "safe" method of mailing that keeps these Macro Viruses
at bay (up to now & as far as I know!). I destroyed the posting
immediately as I do on principal to any mail that has any attachment
whatsoever, unless I know exactly where it has come from, and then I
would rather not accept it!
--
Dr Henry Chandler
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
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