Re: Virus / worm alert! Thank you

June 13, 2006

I got a couple of these the other day from a friend on my list. I opened the

email but not the attachment. I am scanning my puter now. Thanks for the heads

up. I read the artical, it does say you can get it without opening the

attachment. If the viruse is writen into the html code, you can get it by just

opening the email. It can also be writen to open the attachment as soon as you

open the email. Compters are great things but the can also do bad things.

Dawn

Kennedy <ikennedy2@...> wrote:

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Like Red Buttons used to intone: " Strange things are happening! " In my mail

program, Outlook Express, one must click on the mail and open and display it

before it can be deleted. Last night I started getting the " New Graphic

Site " letters and they contain an attachment. The sender is

" lesbianpics & persons " or something like that. I opened about 20 of them from

my other list and deleted them this morning. My Norton Internet Security

never showed anything and I updated definitions and scanned the whole

computer twice to be sure. I do not know a lot about it but wouldn't it

stand to reason that if someone could write a virus that could infect by the

opening of an E-Mail why would they have to include an attachment?

Thank you for all you do .

2497

" To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we

do not know, that is true knowledge. " Nicolaus Copernicus

[ ] Re: Virus / worm alert!

> Hi, .

>

> Check this out:

>

> " The worm is taking a pretty novel approach, " said Dean ,

> senior manager of Symantec Security Response. " It takes advantage of

> a JavaScript vulnerability, so the user doesn't even have to click on

> an attachment to get infected. "

>

>

> My computer hasn't been affected by this worm, but, apparently, some

> computers of a few members of our group have been.

>

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