Hi,
I apologise to those of you whose email systems have been heaving with the
"Your Password" message today. I alerted the JISCMail helpdesk earlier on
today after it became clear that a virus had indeed been forwarded to this
list.
The original "Your Password" notice was not sent to this list, but to
another member of the list who rather than alerting list members to this
password forwarded the email containing the virus to the list - judging by
the volume of emails coming into my inbox today many email systems have
trapped the offending email. I can only hope that nobody opened the
attachment.
There have been a number of instances of this happening with other lists as
well today, both the original and the forwards have all come from either
Russia or China.
The only advice I can give is please do not open attachments if you don't
know who they are from and if you want to alert any one to a virus please
don't forward the message containing the virus.
Cheers
Lesley
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Learning and Information Services,
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ian Winship
Sent: 15 July 2002 14:56
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Subject: Your password message
Messages on this list today entitled 'Your password!' with an attachment may
be a virus. Anyone have more information?
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Ian Winship
Learning Resources, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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