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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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| | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —James Brown
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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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| | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Matthew Miller
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Shiri Dori
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Jeremy H. Sproat
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Shiri Dori
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Paul Sinasohn
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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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| | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Steve Bliss
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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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| | | | | | Re: Grrr... another virus —Jeremy H. Sproat
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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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