[Sca-cooks] Check your machines everyone!

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur:
>  > Lainie, I am afraid you have been hit with the
>>  SoBig F virus and it is going through your e-mail
>>  addresses and sending the virus out to others.
>>
>>  Adamantius, I just got a message from you with an
>>  attachment that was infected with the virus.  I
>>  have deleted it.  Please do a virus check!
>
>Very likely, neither of them actually have the virus. Someone ELSE does, who
>has both of them in his/her address book. This virus, like Klez, uses the
>address book to create false headers.

I actually did a virus scan, just to be [reasonably] sure. But that, 
added to the fact that I'm running OS X behind a firewall _and_ don't 
use a Microsoft mail client, makes me fairly certain I don't gots no 
cooties. A fortuitous combination of a well-designed OS with a 
relative degree of obscurity tends to have it fly under the radar of 
most virus creators. It's not worth their trouble to create such a 
mahvelous worm just to mess up a few lowly Mac users. (Although Mac 
users who use Microsoft products could still pick up bad macros.)

However, I did receive an "undeliverable" notice from AOL, regarding 
something I supposedly sent to somebody I never heard of, and this 
message claimed I was using Outlook Express, which mail client 
doesn't exist for my OS (Entourage does, but I'm not using that, 
either).

So yes, I imagine a message, purporting to be from me, but in fact 
from Mr. Klez or one of his relatives, and sent from the mailbox of 
some Windows user of my acquaintance, is the culprit. I friggin' hate 
Windows...

Adamantius