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From: "Jesse Armantrout" <armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*>
To: "Todd Leonard" <toddl@in*.co*>, <smigaldi@ho*.co*>
Cc: <cavers@cavers.com>
Subject: Re: Virus from Skip MacElhannon
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:58:00 -0600
Just got off the phone with Skip...it is as you say.  This message does not
even show up in his outbox.  He was a victim of the virus.

No harm, no foul.

Trout

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> From: Todd Leonard <toddl@in*.co*>
> To: smigaldi@ho*.co*
> Cc: cavers@cavers.com
> Subject: Re:  Virus from Skip MacElhannon
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 3:17 PM
> 
> Based on the information in the alert you posted, it seems 
> pretty clear Skip did not overtly send an attachment.  The 
> note we all saw is the nature of the worm's propagation
> mechanism -- look at the headers and you'll see very clear 
> differences between the message Skip sent and the message 
> sent by the worm.  So, while annoying to us and probably a 
> little embarrassing to Skip, the worm episode is a far cry 
> from the repeated and deliberate bullshit vickirandy's been 
> inflicting on the list.
> 
> - Todd
> 
> 
> >  From: "Scott Migaldi" <smigaldi@ho*.co*>
> >  
> >  Here is the visus alret from MacAfee.
> >  
> >  Carl is skip another candidate for the dumpster???
> >  
> >  [...]
> >  
> >  The worm infects a system via email delivery and arrives as an 
> >  attachment called Happy99.EXE. It is sent
> >  unknowingly by a user.

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