One way all you windows users can protect your self is to
dump Microsoft Outlook as your personal email.  I recommend a program
called "the bat"  from www.ritlabs.com.  It is cheap $35 for private use,
small and fast.  It handles multiple email accounts much better than
outlook (seperate inboxes for each account) and IT DOESNT RUN THE LATEST
WINDOWS VIRUSES.

FWIW, I use mutt (www.mutt.org) my inbox is currently 92MB cuz I'm to lazy
to clean it out and this program flies!

Pat

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:48:14PM -0500, David Beierl wrote:
> Folks, some of you (you know who you are) are getting this just to know
> what I'm up to.  For the rest...
>
> For those lists where this is grossly off-topic, I humbly apologize.  In
> fact it's grossly off-topic on all these lists, but some of them are having
> a good bit of trouble with this, and I hope the others will be able to
> avoid it.
>
> I'm talking about a recent virus/worm/Trojan program known technically as
> W95.hybris.gen, also as Snowhite [sic].  It tends to arrive in an email
> addressed from [saving your reverence] <hahaha@sexyfun.net>.  *This Address
> Is A Fake.*
>
> I have become rather concerned about this one over the last several weeks;
> I'm right now engaged in trying to help several people around the country
> recover from it; I've received at least a dozen copies during this time.
>
> It has been around since 25 September, and it has an astonishing technical
> ability to adapt itself which in my humble opinion makes it exceedingly
> dangerous, even though it has not created *much* actual damage to date.  I
> say much -- I know of at least two instances where people's systems have
> been quickly rendered unusable, and more where the infection has been
> difficult to eradicate.  It is technically by far the most advanced such
> program yet written, and its comparatively benign behavior until now is no
> indicator of its potential.  It also appears to have advanced methods of
> discovering addresses to send itself to, and may make a concerted effort to
> prevent itself being removed from an infected system.
>
> A dedicated computer professional has purchased the domain name
> (sexyfun.net) where the email allegedly originates from, and has set up a
> website there at http://www.sexyfun.net/ in order to help people recover
> from this virus, and to avoid infection, and, he hopes, to eradicate it
> from the planet.  He (she?) is of the opinion (which I share) that it is
> important for us all to cooperate if we don't want this to be around for a
> very long time.  Happy99 lasted a year, and technically it was a
> firecracker to W95.hybris.gen's ICBM.  I won't waste any more time
> describing W95.hybris.gen because the website has or has links to pretty
> much everything that is known about the beast.
>
> I urge you to visit the site, plan on spending an hour or more learning
> about it, protect yourselves sensibly, and assist others in any way
> possible.  As our beloved Coast Guard puts it "Mariners are requested to
> maintain a sharp lookout, render assistance as needed, and report all
> sightings to the nearest Coast Guard unit."
>
> I will do whatever I can to help anyone understand and use the information
> available at www.sexyfun.net/ (which continues to be updated as more
> information becomes available about the program).
>
> Thanks for your attention, and please think about this carefully.
> Best Regards,
> David Beierl
> 401 274-5827 East Coast -- 8am to midnight ok.
>
> David Beierl - dbeierl@attglobal.net
>