No. No, thank you.

[Mickey Rowe <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>]

We at dinosaur list management frown upon messages related to things
non-dinosaurian, so I hope Mary and I can forgive me for this...

If Windows is your operating system, please make sure that your system
has not been infected by Sobig F.  If you are already running
anti-virus software, go to the web site of the company that produced
your software, download the latest definitions, and scan your hard
drive.  If you are not already running anti-virus software, get some
now.  Talk to someone you trust or go to your favorite web search
engine and perform a search on "Anti-virus software" to find companies
that make products that will allow you to detect and remove
infections.

I'm breaching our soft ban on this subject because during the past two
days I have received about 2000 messages related to Sobig F.  In the
time it took me to type the first paragraph of this message I received
a dozen more.  Most of the messages I've gotten have been complaints
from other computers claiming that the dinosaur list or owner-dinosaur
sent a copy of the worm.  In no case is it true that either of those
addresses sent the worm.  The worm is being distributed from other
addresses claiming to be dinosaur list's addresses because the worm
has found the dinosaur list's addresses in the address books of
infected computers.  It thus stands to reason that there are several
active dinosaur list subscribers whose machines are infected.  As most
of you have hopefully figured out already, the recent mysterious
messages "from" Rich Travsky, Ken Carpenter, and Roger Stephenson
resulted from this worm.  Whether or not the computers of those three
individuals are infected is an open question since it is reasonable to
expect that the messages "from" them were actually from someone else's
machine(s).

But anyways, please make sure your systems are clean.  The dinosaur
list's name is being besmirched and I'm tired of seeing it falsely
accused (even if only by faceless computers).

Your humble administrator,

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@psych.ucsb.edu)

P.S. I didn't really send this.  Mary sent it and spoofed my address.