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

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Friday, April 2, 2004, 14:40
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 protection was no longer current and needed to be 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) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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