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From: "Roy Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Virus in Genome
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:59:37 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020829192802.02797a08@64.33.48.235> <5.1.0.14.0.20020829204959.04cc4bf0@wells.org>


I agree -- I have the same experience. I don't even know what the virus is,
because I delete the email as soon as my Norton notifies me. I emailed
, and he says just joined the genealogy-dna-L list, so
someone must have picked up his email address right away.

Roy Johnson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Orin R. Wells" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Virus in Genome


> At 09:49 PM 8/29/02 -0500, Roy Johnson wrote:
> >I know him. He is the Listowner of Pace-L@ rootsweb.com. I'll e-mail
him.
> >We have had some problems with viruses where someone picked off email
> >addresses from the list and used them.
>
> Viruses are not generally deliberately sent. When the virus or worm
> invades the host machine it will harvest e-mail addresses where ever they
> can be found and then may even use one or more of them as the "From"
> address so you can be misled into thinking it came from that person. The
> owner of the infected machine often does not even know it is happening.
>
> They will also often harvest topics from email and use these to trick the
> recipient into believing they are looking at a legitimate message.
>
> I have two to four copies of various viruses get tagged on my computer
> daily. Mostly the Klez worm and usually through my bigfoot.com address.
I
> also know that our server nails several a day trying to get to me. This
> has to be the worst virus that has ever come down the pike with regard to
> duration and extent of infection.
>
>
>
> Orin R. Wells
> Wells Family Research Association
> P. O. Box 5427
> Kent, Washington 98064-5427
> <>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html
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>
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