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Jono Barspeed - 02 Mar 2004 07:46 GMT

Its a shame that someone cant take a joke, i dont have the virus anymore
that was attached to the tiscalli news email that was forwarded to me from
this group.

Its just thank goodness I have a daily updated virus shield that picked up
on it before i even recieved it!

Oh, well, bye for now and thanks for all the fish!

Jono

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Graham W - 02 Mar 2004 13:22 GMT

> Its a shame that someone cant take a joke, i dont have the virus
> anymore that was attached to the tiscalli news email that was forwarded
> to me from this group.

It's quite possible that it was not deliberately forwarded to you?

> Its just thank goodness I have a daily updated virus shield that
> picked up on it before i even recieved it!

I would hope you don't go clicking on attached files without giving some
thought to what they are first!

Of course this line from your headers indicates the likely source of
your problems if you do catch an email virus:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158

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Howard Rose - 02 Mar 2004 21:28 GMT

>Its a shame that someone cant take a joke, i dont have the virus anymore
>that was attached to the tiscalli news email that was forwarded to me from
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>Jono

It probably wasn't intended for you, in fact, this is exactly what new
Virii do. Someone has you in their address book and they have
inadvertently been infected with the virus. The virus picks the
sender and recipients at random, then sends off emails containing
copies of itself...

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Steve - 03 Mar 2004 18:08 GMT

> >Its a shame that someone cant take a joke, i dont have the virus anymore
> >that was attached to the tiscalli news email that was forwarded to me from
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> '64 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
> www.howard81.co.uk

More than that, e-mail addresses are harvested from web sites, etc and used
to 'cloak' the actual sender. For example, a domain of xyz.com will be
prefixed by fred@ and used as an e-mail address. It is quite likely that
fred@ does not actually exist, but it looks like it came from xyz.com.

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