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Re: Virus Warning!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jul 21, 2001
• 351 views

Kat,
I use Outlook Express at home and Outlook at work. I use the VET virus
checker. Together they have always caught the virus. I've never had a
problem with any of these.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Virus Warning!


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> On 21 Jul 2001, at 23:01, president at insight-concepts.com wrote:
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> > The attachment name is variable, but will have a double extension,
> > for example "SCRIPT.DOC.PIF". The actual extension may be "PIF",
> > "LNK", "BAT", "EXE" or "COM". The subject of message matches the
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> Once again, never open a file with those extensions. If your puter's OS is
> windoze, tell it to *always show all extensions* and never use Outlook
> Express or it's variants, and never auto-open any files. You know you
could
> have just as easily gotten the virus with javascript or java while
browsing the
> web? Or reading a document with a reader that exec's macros?
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> Kat
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