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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Viruses going around...
2004-04-19
Did you send this to me,Fred?
Or is someone using you to get to me?
Has anybody else gotten this e-mail?
If so what can we do about it?
From: fred@rantburg.com Add to Address Book
To: w_r_manues@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:14:38 +0800

Here is the file. Attachment

your_picture.pif .pif file
Scan and Download Attachment
Scan and Save to my Yahoo! Briefcase
No, and I won't send out such things. This is a virus that's going around. I get at least a dozen of them a day.

If you get an e-mail from "me" with an attachment, it's not from me. The virus guys scan people's address books for addresses when they infect their machines, so chances are any of these you get aren't from the people they say they're from (same applies to about 85-90% of all spam). Even if I did send attachments, they wouldn't be .pifs, .exes, .vbs's, or similar explosives. Also, while I initiate very few e-mails, I never even open (much less reply) to e-mails with the subject line "Hello," "Hi" or "Request for Business Partnership."
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