Virus warning

Glen Zook gzook at YAHOO.COM
Thu May 24 19:15:47 EDT 2001


I scanned the message with a virus program and it
definitely comes back "don't even try to download
this".

Glen, K9STH


--- Brian Wood <brianmwood at EMAIL.MSN.COM> wrote:
> I have received about 5 emails from a "Sierralyn
> Snisky" containing a copy
> of an e-mail I posted to the list, containing a
> directive to "Take a look to
> the attachment." The attachment from this person is
> something with a .scr
> file type. This is very likely a virus. Do not open
> the attachment, or any
> attachment with .scr or .vbs extensions! Odds are
> it's not even from that
> person -- it's probably a virus that infected his
> machine and is sending out
> these copies from his Outlook mail list. Delete the
> e-mail at once and make
> sure you empty your recycle bin.
>
> And just so we're all clear, you can't get a virus
> by reading e-mail, only
> by explicitly opening attachments. Text messages
> cannot infect your
> computer. Now, if you have an email package that
> automatically runs
> attachments, you might be in worse shape.
>
> Brian
>
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