On Saturday 17 July 2004 6:59 pm in rec.boats.cruising Den73740 wrote:

If you belong to several newsgroups you see the same stuff posted across
all the groups. Ignore it, its just backround noise.

Wrong - take a look at the URL.
They are virus/worm postings which download a .pif file.
If you are running a Windows machine and click on one of these your
machine will be owned by the perpetrator and sold to the spammers.

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