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Hey, Personally I hate getting the warnings as much as the viruses... BUT... My mom got an email laballed "Fwd: JOKE". When she opened it, it replaced the content of all our .jpg, .wav, .mp3 and other files with some VBS c**p. Lucky for us, almost (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's a varient on this one: (Life Stages) (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just from opening it? Don't you have to click on the attachment? (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My favorite virus is the Honor virus. I don't know if it's new or not. It consists of a plain text e-mail message, no attachments or hidden html code or anything. The body of the virus-message goes something like: "The message you are (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL! Awesome, Steve! That's going into my scrapbook next to the Gullibility Virus! :-, (URL) for good measure, the real "killer": (URL) - jsproat (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think so, but I can't be sure - like I said, it wasn't sent to me, but to my mom. I just found out the consequences. -Shiri (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not necessarily, using MS Outlook. In some configurations, it seems to open attachments automagically. Considering that these newer virii are Visual Basic scripts, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Didn't Bill Gates argue to the judge (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ahhh, true. That's what my mom uses, and it does open attachments automatically... so I guess that's it. -Shiri Spamcake... hrmph. (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Shiri, I think you can change the Outlook settings so that attachments are NOT automatically previewed or opened. Paul Sinasohn LUGENT #115 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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