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Mark Browne
 
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Default Virus Alert- email from rec.boats

Yesterday Comcast was passing the entire 104K file and filled up my mailbox
by 3 pm. I lost a lot of my mailing list traffic.

Now they have some sort of filter that just says that they have deleted a
message. So far I have deleted over 300 of these things today. Shesh -
enough already!

The kiddies that are writing this trash should get a new hobby - perhaps
boating? Hmm, on the other hand - it would probably turn out that they would
take up wetbikes!

Mark Browne

"noah" wrote in message
...
...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up".

I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my
FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out
30hp.

Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped
with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but
it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every
couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine
utility, so it didn't get through to my system.

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Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security
Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to
"Undeliverable Mail".
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Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb)
unless you know what it is.

Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan,
with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one
of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list.

As you were... )
noah