A non-hoax e-mail transmitted virus

[Dorothy Day]

Dear Bill Crosbie,

Thanks for the confirmation. I tried to track down a reference to this
at the McAfee site, but it was the slowest, most frustrating site visit
I've experienced in ages, and in the end I crashed, and gave up at that
point. Glad you were more persistent, and I apologize for questioning
your verification--I just wasn't able to find it myself, so wondered if
McAfee was being mis-cited. Another posting today refers to it as
SHARETHEFUN--and mentions a bunch of other macro viruses. Those things
are really malignant.

Again, thanks for the timely warning.

	Dorothy Day

On Tue, 27 May 1997, Bill Crosbie wrote:

> At 02:57 PM 5/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >If you can provide authentication for this, please do so. I checked both
> >the DOE's CIAC site and McAfee's site, and could find no mention of a
> >virus called Sharefun. 
> >
> 
> Dorothy,
> 
> First of all, thank you for the excellent reminder that you shouldn't post
> such messages without verifying them.  Of course, looking at the URL posted
> in my message, you will see such verification.  My only error may be that
> the actual virus name is SHAREFUN.A
> 
> I am not some net newbie taken in by the Good Times hoax.  I am a network
> administrator and know my way around the on-line world.  This threat is
> _real_ according to McAfee.
> 
> >> 8<x-----------SNIPPITY SNIP----------------x
> >> For an in depth look at ShareFun visit McAfee:
> >> http://www.mcafee.com/support/techdocs/vinfo/v3333.html 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> MCAFEE DISCOVERS SHAREFUN VIRUS; FIRST MACRO VIRUS TO AUTOMATICALLY EMAIL
> >> ITSELF TO UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS
> >> 
> 
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> 
> 

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Dorothy Day			
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Indiana University
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