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Subject:Re: viruses Stan!
From:jimt
Date:Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:02:08 -0600

see the message i posted about the virus.  it is a spoofer.  check the
origin of the message and not the from and too addresses.
jimt
its either our little bear friend or a klez variant probably.

On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 05:20 PM, Aristotle Sagan wrote:

> Dear Stan....
>
> I got a note from you saying you got a note from me with some virus in
> it or
> something....
>
> I am not too sure about this. First off, I use hotmail, it don't have
> no
> virus. Ever. It doesn't have the capability to send this sort of stuff.
>
> Second, the system I use at work is scanned everyday with updated virus
> protection signature files at least once a week. Besides, neither you
> nor
> anyone else on the list is in my email address book. You all live in
> hotmail.
>
> At home I use old Netscape for any email I send other than hotmail.
> You are
> not in that address book either. Either is anyone else from the list.
>
> I do download using outlook express but there is nothing in that
> address
> book either, cause I only use hotmail to send messages.
>
>
> So I am cornfused. I have no idea what you even got as the message you
> sent
> was in some scrambled mime format.
>
> So, I am sorry you might have gotten something with my name on it. I
> suspect
> it came from someone elses email address book with my name in it.
>
> I will check my computer when I get home. In the meantime, don't open
> emails
> from me with attachments, as I never send them.
>
> tim in san jose
>
>
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