Re: W3C Sending out Viruses?

Hello,

On Jan 28, 2005, at 13:00, <pr@reclipse.net> wrote:
>  I just got an email from ‘www-validator@w3.org’ with a .zip 
> attachment named Music_MP3.zip. I scanned it and found that it had a 
> ‘W32/Bagle@MM!pwdzip’ type virus in it. I assume that this was not an 
> email you wanted to be sent, and I am just emailing you to alert you 
> of something that could be a problem.

www-validator@w3.org is not a real mail account but a mailing-list, and 
no mail is ever supposed to come from it. My guess is that some viruses 
forge From: addresses when sending the viruses, taking the user's 
address book as a basis. So someone indeed sent you a virus, but it was 
not the W3C mail system, but most likely someone who had you (and 
www-validator) in their address book is infected.

Thank you,
-- 
olivier Thereaux - www-validator list maintainer