Richie, et all.., I got the same e-mail from Garth plus one other. Luckily our office anti-virus software catches these things & not only notifies me but also our network administrator. "Warning Will Robinson" messages appear all over your screen & you know to simply delete the file & do not try to look at it or any of its attachments. I would not live in cyber-space without anti-virus software installed. Cheap insurance. I fear that once the downloading process described below begins - it might be too late!!!! Be very careful e-richie. Richard Rose Still virus free in Toledo, Ohio
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Richard M Sachs Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:26 AM To: OROBOYZ@aol.com Cc: davidblight@rya-online.net; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Sorry, another observation about the Virus epidemic...
i hate to add to this mess. in the batch of mail i just received, there was one from garth and the header was 'more bicycling magazine bashing'. there was no attachment icon to click. but as soon as i scrolled to that email, it started downloading something; i got that pesky window woith the moving pics of a folder moving pages from right to left. i quickly scrolled to another mail and read it, then went back to garth's and the same download proceeded to occur. then i deleted it. then i looked at it as it appeared in my deleted folder. same thing happened. then i emptied the deleted folder. anyone else experience this? hey, what about that 531? is that a tubeset, or what? e-RICHIE
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:40:33 EST OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 11/30/01 5:49:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> davidblight@rya-online.net writes:
>
> << Your email did the same as the virused ones which I received last
> week, so
> I hope for your sake that its just a coincidence. >>
>
> I want to make sure I was understood in my last warning as I have
> gotten a
> number of responses saying something similar to "I couldn't open
> that odd
> file I received"
>
> Let me be direct... NEVER open files attached to e-mails, even if
> you think
> you know who it is from (as this virus steals the identity of
> unknowing web
> users)
> The files that are carrying the virus seem to be named (last part of
> their
> designation):
>
> ".pif"
> and
> ".scr"
>
> I have gotten literally maybe 100 of these in the last few weeks
> with more in
> the past few days. They adapt not only the ID of the sender, but
> also make up
> deceptive topics and titles, very diabolical...
>
>
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina
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