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Re: virus alert!!! Re: Important Message From Fred McLain

• From: jeremy@o... (Jeremy H. Griffith)
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:37:34 GMT

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:01:43 GMT, Richard Tobin <richard@c...> wrote:

>> It would be
>> good if you warned your correspondents not to open the attachment.
>
>This suggests that the message was sent in good faith, something I
>find hard to believe.  People sending genuine messages to mailing
>lists don't say "Here is that document you asked for ... don't show
>anyone else".  I've mailed abuse@c... but for all I know they
>are spammers themselves.

Yeesh.  The *worm* sent the message, just like with happy99.  All
poor Fred did was open it, which in some mailers is automatic...
That is the nature of a worm; it sends itself on.  Get used to it.
And make sure you never, ever, load a Word/PowerPoint/Excel doc
in such a way that the Auto macros can run... which is real hard 
to avoid...


--Jeremy H. Griffith     <jeremy@o...>
  http://www.omsys.com/jeremy/

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