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From: William
Finnerty
To: TV3 ; Tuam Herald ; TG4 (Newsdesk) ; Sunday Business Post ; RTE (Irish National TV Station)
; Irish Times
; Irish Independent Newspaper Group
(Unison) ; Irish Examiner Newspaper ; Irish Emigrant Newspaper ; Ireland On Sunday
; Galway
Advertiser Editor (Mr Declan Varley) ; Connacht Tribune Editor (Mr John Cunningham) ; Galway Bay FM (local Radio
Station)
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning (COPIES TO IRISH MEDIA)
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS TO E-MAILS WHICH MAY
APPEAR TO COME FROM ME
---- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Labour
Party ; Fine Gael ; Sinn Fein ; Green Party ; Democratic Left
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:15 AM
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning (COPIES TO OPPOSITION PARTIES)
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS TO E-MAILS WHICH MAY
APPEAR TO COME FROM ME
----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: beverly.cooper_flynn@oireachtas.ie ; denis.foley@oireachtas.ie
; harry.blaney@oireachtas.ie
; jackie.healy-rae@oireachtas.ie
; liam.lawlor@oireachtas.ie
; mildred.fox@oireachtas.ie
; seamus.healy@oireachtas.ie
; tom.gildea@oireachtas.ie
; tony.gregory@oireachtas.ie
; michael.lowry@oireachtas.ie
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning (COPIES TO INDEPENDENT POLITICIANS)
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS TO E-MAILS WHICH MAY
APPEAR TO COME FROM ME
----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Prime Minister Bertie Ahern ; Minister Noel Dempsey ; Minister Michael Smith ; Minister Mary
O'Rourke ; Minister Joe Walsh ; Minister James McDaid ; Minister
Frank Fahey ; Minister Dermot Ahern ; Minister
Charlie McCreevy ; Minister Brian Cowen ; Deputy Prime Minister Mary
Harney ; Justice
Minister John O'Donoghue ; Heritage Minister Sile de Valera ; Health
Minister Micheal Martin
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:12 AM
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning (COPIES TO GOVERNMENT)
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS TO E-MAILS WHICH MAY
APPEAR TO COME FROM ME
From: William
Finnerty
To: eamon.ocuiv@oireachtas.ie
; Michael D Higgins ; michael.kitt@oireachtas.ie
; Minister
Bobby Molloy ; paul.connaughton@oireachtas.ie ; ulick.burke@oireachtas.ie
; padraic.mccormack@oireachtas.ie
; Minister Noel
Treacy ; frank.fahey@oireachtas.ie
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning (COPIES TO COUNTY GALWAY POLITICIANS)
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS TO E-MAILS WHICH MAY
APPEAR TO COME FROM ME
I'm pretty sure someone is trying to propagate a computer virus using my e-mail
address. In so far as I can judge, they are NOT using my computer directly to do
this. Instead, they seem to have come in (off the Internet while I've been on-line) and
taken some (or possibly all) of the names in my e-mail address book: and then gone
on from there. Apparently, this kind of thing is now happening a lot; and it is
the main way that the people concerned use to spread a PC virus.
As you will see below, I have now reported this whole business to the police here in
Ireland, and to Eircom (my Internet Service Provider). You will see also that it
is not the only piece of Internet trouble I've had in the past few weeks.
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Email: wfinnerty@eircom.net
Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/
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----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Assistant Police
Commissioner (Galway area)
Cc: Police Commissioners
Office
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: Fw: Thanks (from Finnerty's)
Garda reference: P.S. 219/01
Dear Assistant Commissioner Keating,
I am writing to let you know that the false-reading on my web site which I
reported earlier has now been corrected by Eircom. Please see copy of e-mail to
Steffen Higel at Eircom below. In an effort to protect my own interests, I have now placed
an outline of this mysterious business at the following www address:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/hit-counter.htm
I feel I should also mention that during the past 24 hours I have started to
receive e-mails (from people I know) which suggest that someone MIGHT be using
my e-mail address to propagate a computer virus. Please see copy of second e-mail below to
K****** F*******.
Sincerely,
Mr. William Finnerty.
First E-Mail:
----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Steffen
Higel
Cc: Valerie Doherty
(Eircom Customer Services) ; Eircom Webmaster ; Bill Crawford
(Eircom Customer Services) ; Eircom Accounts Deptartment ; Danial Dunne ; Doras Editor (Eircom)
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: Thanks (from Finnerty's)
Dear Steffen,
The correct number was restored to the hit-counter at my web-site yesterday.
I am very grateful to you for the corrective action you have taken.
For several reasons I feel I should point out that my costs in attempting to have this
matter resolved were in the region of £1000; and my hope is that Eircom
will consider it appropriate to compensate me in some way for this unexpected
and unwanted expense. As I see it, I played no part at all in creating (and
sustaining) the problem; and, for reasons that are still a complete mystery to me, some
people at Eircom appear to have falsely believed that the error in question could not be
corrected under any circumstances (as their e-mails to me testify).
Sincerely,
Mr. William Finnerty.
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Email: wfinnerty@eircom.net
Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/
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Second E-Mail:
----- Original Message -----
From: William Finnerty <wfinnerty@eircom.net>
To: K***** F******* <info@d************.com>
Cc: Doras Editor (Eircom) <editor@doras.ie>;
Danial Dunne <helpdesk@eircom.net>; Valerie
Doherty (Eircom Customer Services) <dohertyv@indigo.ie>;
Eircom Webmaster <webmaster@eircom.net>;
Bill Crawford (Eircom Customer Services) <bill.crawford@indigo.ie>;
Eircom Accounts Department <billing@eircom.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: "Add new DWORD Value".
> K******,
>
> I don't know what this is all about.
>
> Yours is one of three e-mails I have very recently received with reference
> to something which suggests (to me) that someone MIGHT be trying to
> propagate a virus using my e-mail address. One person (in the US) has
> told me that their scanner actually reported the presence of a virus (possibly
> in some kind of attachment).
>
> Also, a cousin in New Zealand has told me about a virus people
> experienced there which gets into PCs and sends e-mails to all the
> addresses it can find: causing chaos. (He told me about that several
> weeks ago.)
>
> For obvious reasons, I am copying this to Eircom.
>
> I have not received a copy of the e-mail in question, and I would suggest
> you seriously consider sending a (full) copy of whatever you have received
> (supposedly from me) to Eircom.
>
> Thank you for contacting me.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Email: wfinnerty@eircom.net
> Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: K***** F******* info@d************.com
> To: William Finnerty <wfinnerty@eircom.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: "Add new DWORD Value".
>
> > William
> >
> > What is this email about. We don't download files unless we know what it
> > is about.
> >
> > K****** F*******
> > D***** ******* Company
> >
> > ---------- Original Message -----
> > >From: William Finnerty <wfinnerty@eircom.net>
> > >Subject: "Add new DWORD Value".
> > >Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2001, 7:57 pm
> > >
> > > Name OpenGL, and set it to the value of 1 to enable the panel.
> > > 5)Repeat the procedure and name the key D3D.
> > > 6)Note: Setting the values to 0 disables the panels.
> >
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