Re: Administrivia - Mea Culpa

[Mel <rockchick () totalise co uk>]

Would it be possible to elaborate on how the infected email can slip our 
defenses?  My (in-need-of-updating) AV software detected nothing, but at 
the same time I have not opened or run any attachments sent through this 
mailing list.  My email client is Eudora.  Having googled for information 
regarding this, it is still not clear to me whether the attachment actually 
has to be run my the user in order for the computer to be infected.
Advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Mel


At 03:03 PM 1/3/2003 -0700, Dean Turner wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Earlier today I inadvertantly approved a message that contained the
> W32/Bugbear.A@mm in the coordonnnees_.txt.scr attachment.
>
> Though I would like to say that this was merely a test to see if you have
> been reading the list and following its advice, I sadly can not do so in
> good conscience.
>
> We are normally very careful about approving list traffic and in this case
> a small attachment not easily noticed in the approval client went
> undetected.  Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this has
> caused.  It is nice to see that so many gateway virus scanners are doing
> their job out there.
>
> If you feel that it may have slipped by your defences please download a
> free removal tool from the following link:
>
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear () mm removal tool html
>
> Again, please accept my most sincere apologies.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Turner
> SecurityFocus
> http://www.securityfocus.com