[NU Sports] Virus

[Scott Zeller]

Somewhere in the afterlife, John DeGroat is having a good laugh, being
able to rile up the list one last time.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:
>> I did not find a virus in the mail, and FWIW John's widow's name was Gail,
>> maybe she had a laptop with our list and in a panic sent the request to the
>>  whole address book multiple times.
>
> The text of that email is virtually identical with others I have seen and is IMHO
> a 'phishing' attempt.  Many of the ant-spam/anti-virus engines will label everything a
> 'virus' even if it is technically some other kind of threat.
>
> The first time I saw it it even supposedly came from someone who was known to be travelling
> to the foreign city that was cited, an interesting coincidence.
>
> Based on the headers, I don't believe it came from Gail or John's computer but was forged
> to appear to come from John's email address.
>
> How John's email address got in the hands of the sender of that note is unclear.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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