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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Virus I received today
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:18:14 -0400
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Hello David. seems to be some viruses floating around. I have the addy for
a free email scan, and also protects your computer from hackers. it is
highly recommened, and it DOES work. :) If anyone is interested the web
addy is www.zonealarm.com. it is less than 2 mb in size, so does NOT take
up a lot of memory. there are 2 zonealarm programs. one is called
Zonealarm Pro. that is NOT the free one. I hope this will work for all.
Have a good day.
Betty





----- Original Message -----
From: "David Burns" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: [ABERDEEN] Virus I received today


> To all,
>
> It would appear that my mailbox received a virus today in the form of an
attachment. I think one of my children must have opened it.. I'm not sure
where it came from but would appear to have started after I received a mail
from Malcolm and Val Smith on Aberdeen mailing list with an attachment
called "searchURL.scr"13.3KB
>
> It made all mails received on my pc ( we have 4 mail accounts) have my own
name appear in the 'sender' column and then automatically resent the
received mails to the original ( real) sender with an attachment ( various
attachment names but possibly the same 13kb file)
> I had no indication this was happening until after it happened and no
control over it!
>
> I had no idea how to 'debug' my mailbox and so deleted the whole outlook
program and reinstalled it.
>
> So whatever you do, DON'T open attachments which I may have unknowingly
sent earlier today and I sincerely apologise to you all.
>
> David Burns
>
>
>
>
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