[Bioundgrd] two new virus warnings, PC USERS

[Gurukarm Khalsa]

Two new variations of the recent viruses "Bagle" and "Netsky" are 
circulating widely. Both spread by email attachment and both spoof 
(forge) the "From" field in emails, thus appearing to be from someone 
you know or someone who might be from MIT ("colleague at mit.edu", for 
instance).

In the case of Netsky, advantage is being taken of a vulnerability in 
Internet Explorer versions 5.01 and 5.5. Please run Windows Update to 
be sure you have the current patches for IE.

If your Viruscan has not yet updated for today, please manually update now!

And yes, here's the virus rant :-)
As always, NEVER NEVER open attachments from someone you don't know; 
even if an attachment APPEARS to be from a friend or colleague but 
you're not expecting anything from that person, check with the sender 
before opening. The "from" field  can be forged by the virus.
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Gurukarm K. Khalsa 		MIT Dept. of Biology
Computing help in Building 68	biocomp at mit.edu
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