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Capt. Frank Hopkins
 
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Default Virus Alert- email from rec.boats ===Soultion!===

I received a great big nasty bunch myself. I was able to filter them out
by using email filters to allow only persons in my address book to send
mail.

Someone my contact me at my alternate mail box.



remove /antivirus/ for a valid address

Capt Frank Hopkins

http://www.home./antivirus/earthlink.net/~aartworks

noah wrote:
...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