Viruses being transported with cygwin messages

[Gerald S. Williams]

Tim Prince wrote:
> Earthlink gave me immediate automatic acknowledgment that these were viruses 
> originated by one of their customers. 

Sorry for the extra noise, but in case anyone's trying to
track down the sources, I also got a message claiming to
be from Christopher Faylor (though with the wrong address).
It also went through Earthlink, as the headers show:

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Return-Path: <cgf@jannino.com>
Received: from [internal addresses]
Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74])
	by [internal address] with ESMTP id g9DHPru13432
	for <gsw@agere.com>; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from pool0355.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.100] helo=HUNG)
	by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1)
	id 180mXM-0004o6-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:28:21 -0700
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@jannino.com>
Subject:  Re: bash 2.05a command completion spec bug
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------4MNKIZZFJFEJXQK"
Message-Id: <E180mXM-0004o6-00@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
Bcc:
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:28:21 -0700
Content-Length: 69055
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Here was the entire message (my company server apparently
nabbed the actual virus on the way in, but I'm updating my
antivirus just in case...):

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Command completion specs causes bash 2.05a specifically *and* Cygwin
>in general to behave "poorly." By "poo 
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-Jerry Williams

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