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From: "Ben Mertens" <>
Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] REMOVE ME PLEASE DON"T SEND IT BACK TO ME!!!
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:55:40 -0400
References: <7b.136ceb44.2810d3d8@aol.com> <000101c0ca99$ac517340$1acf4fd8@ewxuq>


Brenda Hudson,
I appologise for any concerns and problems that you had getting any
emails from me. Even though they had my name, Ben Mertens, they were not
from me but from the virus (worm) called BAD TRANS.
Unbeknownst to me, someone sent me an email with an attachment with the
virus (worm) "BAD TRANS". My Norton had been updated 15 days prior, but
that was not recent enough. The virus was undetected.
The virus would take every email, attach itself and send the email back
to the sender. If the sender returned it to me, it would attach again and
send again.
I worked with Norton, got the newest update, and their technical staff;
now the virus is gone and I am CLEAN.
I'm very sorry for any inconvenience to anyone - and sorry to loose 3 days
of collecting genealogy. May no one have the a similar experience.

Love of Family, Friends and Genealogy
Ben Mertens



----- Original Message -----
From: Brenda Hudson <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] REMOVE ME PLEASE DON"T SEND IT BACK TO ME!!!


> Betty, why shouldn't we delete them? I realize they are virus files, but
> please tell me why not to delete them, I don't understand. What will
happen
> if we delete them? Also, I have received a total of 9 of these messages
so
> far. All 9 of them came from a Ben Mertens and all 9 of them had the
> following on the subject line: Re:[LARAPIDE] REMOVE ME PLEASE DON'T SEND
IT
> BACK TO ME!!!!!!!!!
> Also, all 9 of them have this message in the body of the email and come
with
> an attachment:
> Also, a couple of those I received had the YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif , but some
> of them had different things, they were: docs.scr (13.3 kb) or
> Me_nude.AVI.pif (13.3 kb) or Pics.ZIP.scr (13.3 kb) . These words were
not
> in the body of the email, but when you clicked on the paper clip to open
the
> attachment, this is where you see the you are fat, me nude, docs.scr or
> pics.zip.scr I didn't open any of them as they were obviously viruses to
> me, but I did delete them so please let me know what happens when you do.
I
> have been having many, many problems since then operating my email
properly.
>
> I wonder who Ben Mertens is and if he is aware he has these viruses
> attached? I pretty much figured it was the foul mouthed individual with
the
> stupid attitude who refers to himself as PlatinumSoul sending it and that
> his real name is Ben Mertens, but with no proof right now of that, I would
> be real hesitant to publicly make a statement such as that.
>
> Regardless, however, of who is sending them and if they know they are
> sending them or not, I really would like to know why you said earlier that
> these attachments/emails should not be deleted!!!!
>
> Thanks for your help, Brenda Hudson
>
>
> Here is the text in each of the 9 virus infected emails I received today
> from a Ben Mertens:
>
> 'Brenda Hudson' wrote:
> ====
> - Jerry and the rest of the List members, I have some really bad news. I
> - don't know how or why, but my antivirus software just intercepted a
virus
> - attached to an email and you'll just never guess which email. The one
to
> - the list from the Platinum Soul dude himself. Don't know if he had the
> - virus and didn't know it or if he got ticked off (he was most obviously
> - ticked off) more than I realized he was and deliberately sent us a
virus.
> - If you guys have antivirus ...'
>
>
> > Take a look to the attachment.
>
>
> The above sentence was the last sentence in the body of the emails I
> received today.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] REMOVE ME PLEASE DON"T SEND IT BACK TO ME!!!
>
>
> > Beware of this:YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif (13312 bytes) DL Time (TCP/IP): < 1
> minute
> > Whatever you do, do not d/l it. Betty
> >
> >
>


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