[plug] WARNING: ***NASTY*** virus loose [attachments sliced]

hooker at iinet.net.au hooker at iinet.net.au
Sun Feb 15 16:59:35 WST 2004


Quoting Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au>:
> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 14:15, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > This arrived with a 72kB PIF attachment, pretty much guaranteed to be a 
> > virus. If you use MS-Windows for reading your email, delete it on 
> > sight. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES READ A MESSAGE LIKE IT.
> 
> I assume you posted this just to make as all feel smug but by any chance
> does anyone on this list still use Windows on their main machine?

Main machine? No, my servers run Linux. But I do have a Win-XP machine partly 
so that I can sync Palm/phone/desktop stuff.

OTOH, I use iiNet's Webmail to sort out and discard the 90% of email that I 
don't want to need to download. Haven't had a virus in ages.

Hook



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