[mso] Re: VIRUS....DO NOT OPEN THOSE TWO PIVOT TABLE MESSAGES

I got it, but it didn't get me HEHEHE.  Knew it wasn't what it said 
with I read the subject.  Also didn't think it was from you.
Rocky

On 29 Nov 2002 at 0:29, Linda F. Johnson wrote:

> 
> I don't know if any of you received two emails just before this one
> that had Pivot Table subjects and appeared to come from me, but they
> had the W32bugbear virus in them.  I assure you that they were not
> sent by me.
> 
> This virus gets into someone's computer and grabs an unread email and
> attaches itself to it, then grabs an email address from the person's
> addressbook and sends it to others in the address book and cloaks
> itself so it appears to come from the address it grabbed, instead of
> the actual person who sent it.
> 
> Someone has old mso mail sitting in their inbox unread and has now
> gotten them a virus and is sending it to all of us  (unless I'm the
> only one who got it?)  Anyway, if that person didn't read the pivot
> table mail, they probably aren't reading this either, so my purpose is
> not to figure out who sent it, but to alert the rest of you not to
> open any attachments that you EVER receive from this group cuz this
> group does not allow attachments so anything like this that you see is
> DEFINITELY a virus.
> 
> Norton caught it here.....if your AV program did not catch it, I would
> highly recommend that you do a complete virus scan of your computer to
> make sure you are clean.
> 
> How the heck did this get thru tho, I wonder, since freelists does not
> allow attachments.   Anyway....this one did NOT come from me and I
> just wanted to let you know.
> 
> Anyone who wants to know how these worms work can read this article I
> wrote in my newsletter about this:
> http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v18/linda18.htm
> 
> Linda
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> 
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