RE: [CH] Fw: links

Fawcett, Steve (steve.fawcett@eds.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:21:55 -0500 

Here's another "bug" to watch out for. Although this is not chile-related, I
did read about this virus in the weekend paper and thought some of you may
appreciate the notice.
Sorry if you don't....


  THE NOT SO LOVELY MELISSA VIRUS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  The bombshell for Friday afternoon (US time) was a new Word
  97 and Word 2000 (currently being widely tested) virus that
  uses Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) to send itself
  out to lots of people very fast and right under your nose.
  As a result it's spread like wildfire in company email
  systems and across the Internet - causing havoc in places
  you would not expect like Microsoft and Intel among many.
  See
 
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/hud0007500a/www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4
586,2233030,00.html
  for Fridays report.

  The virus is called 'Melissa' or more properly
  W97M/Melissa.A (there's no official name and you'll also
  see it called W97M_Melissa or W97M.Mailissa.A ) after the
  name of class module that contains the macro virus.  The
  module is set to run each time an infected document is
  opened and sometimes when closed too.

  As usual there has been a lot of panicked and ill informed
  reports about what this virus does so we've worked over the
  weekend to see what it really does, how you can protect
  yourself and what to do if you've already been infected by
  the Melissa virus.  We'll also squash some of the rumors
  and misunderstandings that are out there.


  THE MAIN WARNING - PLEASE READ THIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  First the main and important warning in brief ...

  If you receive a message from ANYONE at all - it doesn't
  matter who it might be:

  * with the subject line 'Important Message from <name of sender>'

  * and an Word document attached (of any name but probably LIST.DOC)

  Then DELETE THE MESSAGE, do NOT open the Word document.

  This simple advice will remove the virus infected document
  and stop it spreading.  If everyone would follow that
  advice the Melissa virus will be stopped dead in its
  tracks.

  See later in this issue of WOW for more detailed tips on
  what to do if you receive any Word document or Melissa
  virus created message.


  A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM WOODY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Please. Take a few seconds to forward this article to
  everyone you know who doesn't subscribe to WOW. Urge them
  in no uncertain terms to read and heed the above advice -
  doing so will save them and many other people trouble.

  All I ask is that you keep this article intact - don't
  change it - and that you send it in its entirety. If there
  are any updates, we'll post them to http://www.wopr.com/
  immediately.

-----Original Message-----
From: saundrah@mindspring.com [mailto:saundrah@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 6:30 PM
To: chile-heads
Subject: [CH] Fw: links



Here are two links that might be of interest.


>>Chili Head Recipes
>>http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/chile/chile.html
>>
>>Hot Pepper Types, Variety and Uses
>>http://cnn.com/HEALTH/indepth.food/veggies/peppers/hot.pepper.html