I received it today, purporting to come from Andy Draper but without a
europa- email address. Luckily being Mac based a .exe file can't do
anything to me as it doesn't work. Anyway I know enough not to start it up !
Richard
Richard F.W. Holder 01279 842804 (POTS)
Bell House, Bell Lane, 01279 842942 (fax)
Widford, Ware, Herts, 07860 367423 (mobile)
SG12 8SH email : rholder@avnet.co.uk
PA-28-181 : Piper Archer : G-JANA, EGSG (Stapleford)
Europa Classic Tri-gear : G-OWWW, being built.
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> I received two this morning, which were promptly nuked by Dr. Norton, so
> something
> is getting trough to some of us.
>
> Peter
>
>> I certainly
>> haven't had them. If you have posted a message in the last 2 days which
>> hasn't
>> appeared, a virus scan on your system would be a wise precaution. There
>> seems
>> to be genuine content in several of these, which wouldn't happen in a random
>> post by a third party.
>>
>> The forum is intended to preclude the distribution of attachments (and I
>> haven't
>> seen any sent over it for a long time), precisely to prevent viruses being
>> sent
>> to you in this way.
>>
>> The mechanism suggested by Jeremy, whereby both target and apparent 'sender'
>> are
>> selected from the address book on an infected machine, seems quite likely.
>> In
>> the past such messages have been sent to people purporting to come from me.
>>
>> Let us hope this tiresome virus soon fades from view.
>>
>> John Cliff
>> Europa Forum minder
>>
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