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Date: | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:30:04 -0400 |
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Look carefully at the sender's email address - the bugbear virus sends
out a snippet of a real email with the origional subject line and the
real sender's email address at a different domain. I just saw one
ostensibly from me, but coming from infactca.org rather than my real
email address. The text was a snippet of a private email I sent awhile
back.
This is the most insidious virus yet, because it uses one's own words to
lull friends into opening the virus.
Protect yourselves! Keep your virus scanner current, make sure you
never open an attachment that you are not expecting, and scrutinize and
virus scan those you WERE expecting to be sure they are fine. Never,
ever open anything with a double file name extension, esp ending in
.pif, .exe, .com, or .scr .
And consider using something other than Outlook for your email. It's
harder for hackers to use Netscape mail.
--
Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC New York City mailto:[log in to unmask]
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