Re: (TV) Confused / Is is this a virus inside a Trojan horse

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <002201c1f53f$a1bf5420$70837cce@russ1>, Russ Van Rooy
<russvr@blarg.net> writes
>What is likely that happened was that Keith opened an email ( from someone
>not of this group ) that had some kind of script virus (worm) attached to it
>that activated when Keith opened the attachment. This script virus then
>proceeded to read Keith's address book and maybe sent email messages out to
>everyone in his address book. The reason no one on this list saw any
>attachnment is because the list's software automatically strips out
>attachments - definitely a good thing .  Speculation all mine.


Russ, I'm not taking it personally but I _never_ open mail or
attachments that I'm not certain of. Most of the crap I get every day is
weeded out of the ISP's mail server with Mailwasher before it reaches my
machine.
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Keith Allison
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