And... it seems that the spammers finally got a hold of my piclist email=20 address, which I use only for the piclist. As of a few days ago, I've=20 started receiving spam at this address. I'll have to switch again and bl= ock=20 off this one soon. , -Neil. On Thursday 14 August 2003 16:46, Peter L. Peres scribbled: > > James, you need to block this "Russel McMahon" guy. His machine is ba= dly > > infected with viruses. I got three already today. > > For the past two days or so there have been hundreds of viruses sent to > various piclist members, appearing to come from me (plp) and others. Th= ey > bear old piclist message subjects. The only sure thing about them is th= at > the do NOT come from whom they appear to be coming. Russell is > incommunicado (probably travelling), and I run Linux and a pretty tight > firewall. Again: beware of messages with 'old' subjects and do not jump= to > conclusions as to the origin of the virus email. It is NOT from whom it > appears to be. > > Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu