From: owner-krisgigs-digest@smoe.org (krisgigs-digest) To: krisgigs-digest@smoe.org Subject: krisgigs-digest V2 #16 Reply-To: owner-krisgigs@smoe.org Sender: owner-krisgigs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-krisgigs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk krisgigs-digest Thursday, January 31 2002 Volume 02 : Number 016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:58:20 -0800 From: "lisa gay" Subject: a horrifying day... hello everyone on the "krisgigs" list, as many of you discovered rather unpleasantly, a virus/worm invaded kris's email list on tuesday. it appears we were helpless victims, in the wrong place at the wrong time. or at least the file containing all your email addresses was in the wrong place at the wrong time. the problem was not caused by the list originator sending out an infected file. in fact, i'm the moderator of this list (the only one authorized to send out any messages to it) and my computer was not even turned on while this whole episode transpired. this sneaky little virus went into some subsrcriber's address book and figured out a secret outgoing address which bypasses majordomo and sends directly to everyone on the mailing list. i've talked with the people at smoe.org who were deeply apologetic that this little loophole existed in their mail delivery system. you can all rest assured that proper measures have been taken and all the hatches have been battened down to avoid this from ever happening again. this was a unique occurance (the first in smoe's 7 or 8 years of operation) and we wanted to let you know that being a member of this list is no more risky than subscribing to any other list. the technological world, as most of us know, is not without its downside. our apolgies to those list members who got a taste of that the other day. and for those of you who are deciding that the USPS might be a better deliverer of information, we DO send out kris's postal mailer to areas of the country where she is touring. if you would like to be switched over to the snail mail list, write me at lisa@krisdelmhorst.com. thanks for your patience & understanding. especially thanks to those of you who attempted to notify us of this problem and provided helpful information so we could make sense of what was happening. here is a good link related to the "myparty" virus (which was the evildoer of tuesday.) they tell you what to do if your system was infected. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.myparty@mm.html of course we wanted to let people know about this virus issue as soon as possible but didn't want to further infect the list. that is why we waited until we got the go-ahead from the higher ups at smoe.org before we started using the list again. if you have any questions, email lisa@krisdelmhorst.com - -lisa p.s. if you sent a message asking to be unsubscribed, we will be sure to unsubscribe you immediately. thanks for your patience. ------------------------------ End of krisgigs-digest V2 #16 *****************************