Re: AMMRL: AMMRL Email List Compromised

From: Reza Pouremad <rpouremad_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:52:45 -0500

Walt,

Please share your prevention steps so that we can have our PC's protected as
well.

Thanks,
Reza

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Walter P Niemczura <walt_at_hawaii.edu>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Early Friday morning and then again late Friday night and Saturday morning
> three messages were posted through the AMMRL email list that were infected
> with viruses. Neither had "AMMRL:" in the subject line. One was an
> invitation with an attached card in zip format and the second two had the
> subject "Re: Your friend invited you to Twitter!".
>
> Based on the flood of automatic emails that I have received from various
> mail servers these messages did not go through. Hopefully those that did
> were stopped by client anti virus software.
>
> I understand how these were posted and I have taken steps so that this does
> not happen again. I apologize for this attack.
>
> Walt
Received on Mon Nov 22 2010 - 18:52:51 MST

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