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I received today (but not necessarily from this list) a copy of this email
from hahaha that had a joke.exe attachment. I saw this in the preview
screen of Outlook. I did not open joke.exe (except see question below).
1. I'm wondering why McAfee did not give any warning. Would it only do it
if the attachment was opened? I have system scan off but download and
internet scans on. I updated Mcafee about 10 days ago, at least the
.dat files.
a. Is it bad that I disabled system scan? I chose to do this bec. I
rarely install files from a disk and assumed the download/internet scan
would snag any incoming files arriving that way. I figured the
background work of system scan on known, good exe files would be wasteful.
I do run system scan approx. weekly.
b. Without thinking it through long enough, I did click alt-enter,
message source, details on the offending email to see if I could tell where
it actually came from. Q. Does this open the attachment??
c. I did a system scan with Mcaffee and no problems were reported. I
also checked the dates on winsock32.dll and winini.dll and they are old
dates, so I assume the virus is not at work. Do you agree?
Conrad Bowers
----- Original Message -----
From: "William" <wrhsr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: [RT] VIRUS "W95.Hybris.gen"
>
> Dear Members,
>
> Over the past few months, I've received mail from "hahaha@xxxxxxxxxxx"
> Sometimes in the subject heading it would say "Snowwhite"
> It's a "W32.Hybris.gen" virus.
>
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