I doubt it its from the list, since I am late from this threat, if you paste the header info, we or anyon of us can track the source and to assure or tell you how to determine the source of e-mail the next time. =20 Best and regards, Thomas Nathan Chan -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:41 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: VIRUS....DO NOT OPEN THOSE TWO PIVOT TABLE MESSAGES Linda, it apparently did get through, as I got it also, but Norton caught it. I was wondering about the attachment got through since I was pretty sure this group didn't accept attachments. I wish these folks would do something constructive with their abilities. Christine -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 9:29 PM To: MSO Freelist Group Subject: [mso] VIRUS....DO NOT OPEN THOSE TWO PIVOT TABLE MESSAGES 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. 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