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
Thanks for the heads up. The address I use here is a web mail account
that I only look at every couple of days. I just logged into it and
got a big red warning about being at 110% of storage. There were over
200 of these things in my filtered junk folder...