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From: Gladys Friedman Paulin <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Genealogy and Marriage
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:10:12 -0400
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I have deleted over 70 messages of this order so far today.
Suggest everyone scan for viruses as a number of the messages have members of
this list as senders. I have seen Joan Lowry, Richard Pence and Pam Cooper as
senders, but most are fairly obvious as suspect. Have your address books been
compromised????
Gladys
Gladys Friedman Paulin, CGRS
Winter Springs, FL
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> In a message dated 8/20/03 7:51:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> > P.S. If you hear any warnings about the new
> > "screen saver" virus, believe them! I am getting
> > e-mails about once every ten minutes, with *.pif
> > files attached. Some of them mention a screen
> > saver; they are all between about 97K and 102K in
> > size. The first one generated a warning from
> > Norton Anti Virus, naming the virus it was
> > infected with; I have trashed all the others as
> > quickly as they arrive. I also found, when I
> > first logged on, an auto reply from someone I
> > don't know, so am not sure if the virus is using
> > my e-mail address, which it obviously "has", as a
> > blind to send out more copies of itself.
> > It seems to be a pretty active, nasty one. I
> > heard it can wipe out everything. Don't care to
> > find out the hard way. Just a warning.
> >
>
> I'm also receiving e-mails about every ten minutes (starting early this
> morning) that have an attached file. They originate at MAILER-DAEMON or
> and all say "undeliverable" or "delivery status notification
> (failure)"
> or "returned mail - user unknown." I'm also receiving hundreds of e-mails
> from
> unknown people regarding "My details" or "your order" or "thank you" or "that
>
> movie." In addition to all this, I've received about 20 e-mails warning me of
>
> viruses or saying "Virus detected" or "virus in your e-mail." I get a lot of
>
> junk mail, but this is an incredible increase in volume in one day. I'm
> worried
> that something managed to send something out using my e-mail address, thus
> giving me hundreds of undeliverable messages and lots of strangers replying
> to
> me. Is that possible? Did any of you get something junk from me? I certainly
>
> hope not!
>
> I'm obviously not opening the attachments, but I'm curious at what is
> happening!
>
> Karen Green
>
>
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