Noah, it might not be the fault of rec.boats' gentle readers; it could be
that your email address was harvested from an earlier post. I notice
you have munged your address slightly, but it was not always so.

Spammers use robots to cull email addresses from Usenet posts, so
** Never use your real email address when posting to Usenet! **

Make it easy to clean up, like Noah has done, if you really want
to be able get email from anybody on the planet with a news reader.

-- frosty

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