Re: Stupid Microsoft Patch Virus

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From: Ted Davis
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:34

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:51:06 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:

>"Ted Davis" <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote in message
>news:csvomvgdeaat6k9tk4csr4ci9bbvklenj7@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>>>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>>
>> A better question would be "is anyone *not* having trouble with them".
>
>I've not received one. I had to download an example to test my AV.
>My real email addy has never appeared in Usenet headers, apart from
>2 or 3 times last year.
>

All that means is that you are not very popular: your address is not
in a large number of address books or otherwise in files on infected
machines.  One of my addresses is like that, but I never use it for
anything.

T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

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From: Ted Davis <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stupid Microsoft Patch Virus
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:34:15 -0500
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