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John Chapple <jc@ch-w.demon.co.uk> said
>In article <NMhQ4.7044$E44.168224@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
>"barry.morgan" <barry.morgan@ntlworld.com> writes
>>
>>Pedt Scragg <pedt@signpost-design.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:WIE+UCBcLYE5EweW@pedt.demon.co.uk...
>>
>>> >Not this particular virus. You have to run it...
>>And only an idiot would run a file they got from an unsolicited e-mail...
>>right ??
>
>Not necessarily..for people with file extensions switched off (the
>default) this would appear to be a harmless text file, so they probably
>would open/execute it
>
Seems as good a place as any ...

People may be interested in the following email from someone this
morning who does Computer Security on an intra/extra/internet site:

<quote>
Unfortunately, it would now appear to be "open season" for virus writers
and already variants of yesterday's virus are appearing, which because
they are new, could potentially break through our anti-virus defences.
Some new viruses have subject lines that purport to fix previous
viruses.

The latest virus we have identified has a subject line of "FWD:JOKE"

Once we got our block in place (with monitoring) yesterday, we were hit
(obviously unsuccessfully) 73 times in the first 3 minutes we were back
up.
</quote>

1000+ of the original here and counting.
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Pedt Scragg     http://signpost-design.co.uk/   ODP Editor: http://dmoz.org/
Signpost Web Design, Wrecsam, North Wales