Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Since a few weeks, I'm regularly receiving (very)
suspicious messages  to my Yahoo address, I only use
for the list. As I already said bad things about
Yahoo, I'll have to say something nice this time:
Yahoo puts them automatically in a "Bulk" repertory,
and will destroy them after one month. So I don't even
have to look at them, I can, either wait until they're
erased, either empty the Bulk myself regularly (to
save space).

This is exactly what I would ask from an e-mail
server.

--- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
> From:    "Carsten Becker @ work"
> <post@...>
> > Some days ago, I got an email from Thomas R. Wier
> (trwier@uchicago.edu was
> > in the "name" field), it was also a bit strange.
> However, the title was "Re:
> > Here" and the content was just "Read this!". A
> .PIF file was attached (I
> > forgot its name). Because PIF's are executables, I
> did *NOT* download the
> > attachment and immediately deleted that suspicious
> file. So Peter, if this
> > was intention and you really wanted me to read
> something, please say so and
> > send me that mail again.
>
> There are lots of viruses rummaging around the Net
> like this
> recently.  A lot of them spread by taking the
> address of some
> email that happens to be in your inbox (or address
> book, or
> what have you) and sending out the virus to other
> people in
> the email (or address book, etc.).  Thus, you may or
> may not
> recognize the person's email address.   (Sometimes
> these viruses
> are shameless:  I got one the other day saying my
> virus
> protection was no longer current and needed to be
> updated with
> the attached update.  Needless to say, I didn't open
> the
> attachment.)
>
> Anyways, I didn't write that email, and I suggest
> others not
> wasting their time reading similar emails either.
>
>
=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)

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