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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 March 2004 8:22, Peter Butterfield wrote:
Hi, Is anyone else finding that they are getting loads of emails with, presumably, virus laden attachments? I even got one "from" an address I
If these are virus-generated, they are spoofing the From address so don't go hastily blaming anyone you know!
know. I must have had 20 in the past week. Of course they have not had any
Be grateful, some are getting >20 a day.
effect and I've not been sending any myself as I only use the Linux OS for
Your KMail client is fine, as you expect.
mail, although I do know that some have gone out in my name from other people's address books.
Someone using Windows and who has your address is now infected but tracking that down is not easy (unless you keep your address very secret outside the list). Just delete them, I know it's a pain but these are just virii looking for a friendly Windows home - you are just putting them out of their misery by deleting them on a Linux box! (Do a virus a favour - delete it!) :-) - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAaG8EiAEJSii8s+MRAlWlAJ9kPqyfwEDLDC+fMESsnn8TEISa9ACfUtiw IbMNkwIkdQfyU3SC7CTwi80= =XQDI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.