A Virus Apology
posted at 12:54 am
on May. 17, 2006
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Some of you received an email from this mailing list earlier in the week. It had a virus attached.
I’m very sorry. I have this mailing list set only to accept messages from me, and I use anti-cirus protection, and I have a Mac. This really, really shouldn’t have happened, but it did.
What happened is, someone who is subscribed to this mailing list got hit by a computer virus. Their computer sent mail to the list address, and put the return address as being me, a different email at the same domain. This is a semi-common virus technique, because it makes the email look as though it comes from someone at the same company and thus the receiver might be a little more likely to open it.
In this case, the virus scored a home run, because not only did it make the email seem a little more legit, it also allowed it to get resent by the mailing to everyone on it. That virus was one happy camper, let me tell you. Luckily, my readers are all smarter than the average bear and none of you opened it, though several of you did take the time to fill me in on the problem, and that I greatly appreciate.
There’s no way to tell whose computer sent it, and I don’t even know everyone on my blog’s email list personally. I do apologize for the inconvenience, and I’ve taken steps to keep this from happening again.
Keywords: alert • apology • attack • virus
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