Re: [CR]Sorry, another observation about the Virus epidemic...

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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:11:27 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR]Sorry, another observation about the Virus epidemic...
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011130.112627.-513841.16.richardsachs@juno.com>


Received one from Garth as well, however the Subject: on mine was "Re: RE: Re: [CR]Masi vs Waterford-Very Insightful , Garth"

But ... I use a Macintosh ... so I needn't worry about these viruses ...

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Steven L. Sheffield stevens at veloworks dot com veloworks at mac dot com aitch tee tea pea colon [for word] slash [four ward] slash double-you double-yew double-ewe dot veloworks dot com [four word] slash


> From: Richard M Sachs <richardsachs@juno.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:25:44 -0500
> To: OROBOYZ@aol.com
> Cc: davidblight@rya-online.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]Sorry, another observation about the Virus epidemic...
>
> i hate to add to this mess.
> in the batch of mail i just received, there was one from
> garth and the header was
> 'more bicycling magazine bashing'.
> there was no attachment icon to click. but as soon
> as i scrolled to that email, it started downloading something;
> i got that pesky window woith the moving pics of a folder
> moving pages from right to left. i quickly scrolled to another mail
> and read it, then went back to garth's and the same download
> proceeded to occur. then i deleted it. then i looked at it
> as it appeared in my deleted folder. same thing happened.
> then i emptied the deleted folder.
> anyone else experience this?
> hey, what about that 531? is that a tubeset, or what?
> e-RICHIE
>
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:40:33 EST OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:
>> In a message dated 11/30/01 5:49:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> davidblight@rya-online.net writes:
>>
>> << Your email did the same as the virused ones which I received last
>> week, so
>> I hope for your sake that its just a coincidence. >>
>>
>> I want to make sure I was understood in my last warning as I have
>> gotten a
>> number of responses saying something similar to "I couldn't open
>> that odd
>> file I received"
>>
>> Let me be direct... NEVER open files attached to e-mails, even if
>> you think
>> you know who it is from (as this virus steals the identity of
>> unknowing web
>> users)
>> The files that are carrying the virus seem to be named (last part of
>> their
>> designation):
>>
>> ".pif"
>> and
>> ".scr"
>>
>> I have gotten literally maybe 100 of these in the last few weeks
>> with more in
>> the past few days. They adapt not only the ID of the sender, but
>> also make up
>> deceptive topics and titles, very diabolical...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dale Brown
>> Greensboro, North Carolina
>> <A HREF="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/main.htm">Classic
>> Rendezvous</A>