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On Friday 19 Sep 2003 2:20 am, Paul Weaver wrote: Actually, I received this at 12:33am, so Paul, I think your clock is 2hrs fast mate! > On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:27, you wrote: > > Is that the one that claims to be from M$ Program security Dept? If so It varies - mine PRETENDED to come from a non-existent address at dclug.org.uk - I think it's automated from someone's address book on an infected Windows box somewhere. It takes the domain from the email address, tacks on something a bit official and attaches the virus/worm/etc. > > I've got it too. I just hope that my family doesn't recieve a spam like > > that on my Win98 home PC, they would run it... I don't think I can teach > > them to distinguish good attachments from bad, gonna have to try though > > cause else it's gonna be me sorting out their problems. :-)) Been there, installed ZoneAlarm while they were watching tele. Now I just get occassional queries about where the attachment has gone. Answer: I've put it somewhere safe. (i.e. the bit bucket.) > Yeah, I had similar one to that - a .bat file which was an executable > (started with MZ). Had about 5 today with large attachments that spam > assassin didnt catch (or did catch but only on one or two stars). Very > annoying if I was on a modem. SpamAssassin 2.55 found mine, albeit with a score of only 5.1, but it was incomplete. In carving off the attachment, I think the mime boundaries were wrecked and I didn't get the full message. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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