[LINK] E-mail a saviour amid anthrax scare

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Sorry to say...
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171191.html
>Anthrax Worm Rated A Low Risk Threat
>
>By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
>CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
>17 Oct 2001, 1:06 AM CST
>
>A new e-mail worm that preys on Anthrax fears poses a low risk to computer
users and is >not spreading widely, anti-virus software firms said Tuesday
night.
>
>The worm arrives in an e-mail with the subject line "Antrax Info" and with
an 
>attachment named antraxinfo.vbs, according to analysis of the code by
Symantec 
>Corporation.

RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Macintosh [mailto:ian@topic.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 10:32
To: Tony Barry
Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] E-mail a saviour amid anthrax scare


Wait for some hacker to write anthrax.vbs :-(

Ian

Tony Barry wrote:
> 
> Extracted item for information.
> 
> Source:ZDNet Australia News & Tech - Wednesday October 17, 2001
> 
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> 4. E-mail a saviour amid anthrax scare
> Use of e-mail could skyrocket as an ever-widening anthrax investigation
> turns "snail mail" into a suspicious and potentially lethal form of
> communication.
> http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?152756
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