Possible problem on gramene.org

Pankaj Jaiswal pj37 at cornell.edu
Tue Apr 30 12:05:26 EDT 2002


Dear Gerard,

We assure you that no such viruses have been forwarded from Gramene mailing
list. The reason, its a moderated mailing list and any such spurious mails are
either deleted/rejected.

However, a better explanation is sent by Dave Mathews as follows..

Sincerely,

Pankaj

Dave Matthews wrote:
> 
> The Klez virus fakes its From: address, based on what the user/victim
> has in his address book.  I've gotten a couple dozen of them in the
> last three days.
> - Dave

Gerard R Lazo wrote:
> 
> You may want to know that your machine appears to be distributing
> rogue e-mails, possibly due to some kind of virus.
> 
> I received a file with the subject line:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:34:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: gramene <gramene at gramene.org>
> 
> Subject: A special  nice game
> 
> with attachments:
> 
> install.exe
> whoami.cornell
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Apparantly something is going around, I had an unusual number of
> virus associated e-mails this morning.
> 
> -                                                                      -
> Gerard R Lazo    / USDA-ARS-Western Regional Research Ctr \ 510.559.5640
> lazo at pw.usda.gov \ 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710-1105 / 510.559.6449

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