On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:52:58 +0100, Chris Newport
wrote:

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.

Which you would richly deserve, as such bone ignorance after so many
years of "The Internet" is akin to voluntarily sticking one's genitals
into a running blender.

If you are smart enough to post here, you should know better.

R.