STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

ADMINISTRATOR'S ADVISORY: Do not open attachments in STHC-L email

• Date:   Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:36:41 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
• To:   sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject:   ADMINISTRATOR'S ADVISORY: Do not open attachments in STHC-L email
• Message-ID:   SIMEON.10308011641.D@BIO-S-HIS301.library.ucla.edu

STHC-Lers:

Do not open the attachments of an email which was just sent from the 
email account "TZANISH" -- it is infected with the 
"Exploit-MIME.gen.exe" virus.  In fact, it is wise to never open any 
email attachments until you have run them through an updated antivirus 
utility.

This list member did not intentionally send the virus-laden message, 
but presumably everyone (including STHC-L) in her address automatically 
received it.

Note that STHC-L now requires subscription attempts to be approved by 
the list administrator (me), in an effort to prevent Spam attacks.  
However, the email accounts of legitimate subscribers (tzanish, for 
example), may still distribute viruses in attachments.

The best way to prevent your email account from distributing viruses 
when the account is commandeered:  don't keep listserv addresses in 
your email system's online address book.  Instead, keep them in a text 
document on your computer or network drive, or bookmark the the 
listserv's homepage for easy reference.  For example, STHC's 
information page may be found at:

	http://www.neurosciencearchives.org/sthc/sthc.htm


Russell Johnson
STHC-L Administrator
rjohnson@library.ucla.edu