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Paul Turner
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 115
From: Corvallis, OR, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 11-30-2001 09:56 PM

I got one in my Yahoo acount that was disguised as a recipt from PayPal. It said I had sent money to someone I didn't know, so I started to open it. Instead, I ctrl-n'ed a new screen, logged onto to PayPal, it says I didn't send $ to anyone, then went back and dumped the email unopened. I've been getting about five virus-laden emails a day in my theater email. So far McAfee has detected 'em all.

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 12-06-2001 07:20 AM

Yet another one of the little darlings has just turned up, the main difference this time being that it will, if executed, disable certain antivirus and firewall software. But as with most viruses/worms/trojans you need to execute an attachment to activate it so in terms of prevention, nothing more to worry about.

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