[LINK] Result of bugbear

[Jan Whitaker]

This from another list I'm on.  Supports some positions that others have 
presented re the damage that can be caused beyond the issue of infection 
itself.  Doesn't sound like a joke, though.

Jan

>Yet another joke that has been forwarded to me compliments of the
>Bugbear virus. Apparently Bugbear chooses a message at random from the
>infected machine, and from what I've seen so far there is a moderately
>high probability that a randomly chosen e-mail will turn out to contain
>a joke.
>
>But not always. I spent part of the weekend trying to fix a problem on
>a mailing list that is hosted on my computer. Apparently what happened
>was that members of that list were discussing, in an uncomplimentary
>fashion, a certain other person, and then Bugbear managed to send that
>to the person under discussion. The shit hit the fan, and now all sorts
>of accusations are flying about.
>
>Even worse, a private message that came, I believe, from the mailbox of
>one of my colleagues has been distributed to all the academics in this
>department. If it comes from who I think it does, it looks like the
>sort of message she would not want her husband to know about. So far I
>think I'm the only person here who suspects the origin (because I've
>been examining headers in order to figure out who is infected). She's
>absent at present, and I'm still trying to figure out how to break the
>news to her diplomatically.

JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit@primenet.com  --  http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm


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