Restringing GM Yamahas

[Tony Caught]

Avery,

I received it as an attachment.

My virus protection is up to date. W32. Nimda. is a brand new virus that
until the 18th. no listing of this virus was mentioned. This virus can also
be received via Explorer.  See note below.

What I am talking about is etiquette. Or do you agree that its OK to put
marijuana in cakes because you like it and its also OK not to tell people
who try the cakes what it has in it. ?

Tony.

Telstra is alerting you to be wary of a fast-spreading worm. All Internet
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affected Web sites due to increased Internet traffic.

Telstra emphasises that the worm has not originated in its network. Nor is
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The worm, called W32.Nimda, appears as a blank message with an attachment
called 'readme.exe' or 'admin.dll'.

Nimda spreads through email and searches for shared network drives, seeking
unpatched or vulnerable Microsoft Web servers (IIS or Internet Information
Services), overloading them with Internet traffic.

The worm harvests email addresses from address books and sends itself to
all addresses as an attachment called readme.exe or admin.dll.

Please delete any emails you receive with the readme.exe or admin.dll
attachments and update your virus definitions to ensure that your system is
protected.

You can guard against infection by upgrading to Internet Explorer 5.01
Service Pack 2, or, version 5.5 Service Pack 2 at
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Network controls implemented by Telstra today have already prevented
several thousand attempts to spread the worm.

Once it has infected users' PCs, the Nimda worm exposes local hard drives
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----- Original Message -----
From: Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Restringing GM Yamahas


> Tony,
>
> I've had no problems with Bill's posts. I also got no attachments with
> his posts. Just a link to click on if one so desires. Keep your virus
> protection up to date and maybe you'll have no more problems. I haven't!
>
> Avery
>
> At 12:15 AM 09/22/01 +0930, you wrote:
> >Bill,
> >
> >In this day and age of computer viruses (have had three, the last one two
> >days ago. W32.Nimda.)  They are not nice
> >
> >How about if you are going to attach this unrelated junk onto you posts,
> >have the decency to tell the list what you have attached.
> >
> >Tony
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Bill Ballard <yardbird@pop.vermontel.net>
> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:09 PM
> >Subject: Re: Restringing GM Yamahas
> >
> >
> > > At 4:45 PM +0930 9/21/01, Tony Caught wrote:
> > > >Your message came throught with an attachment. Suspect virus.
> > > >Tony
> > >