On 8 Jul 2003 21:57:31 -0700, pennypotter1968@yahoo.co.uk (Penny)
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>I recieved a forwarded email  from someone with the UPDATE Microsoft
>patch virus.
>The reason Im asking here is because as far as I know this place is
>the only place Ive posted anything, and its a fairly new account.
>There was a long list of email addresses enclosed in the forwarded
>mail, many of these had the address  @neis.cr.usgs.gov   which seems
>to belong to the Earthquake Hazards Program.
>
>can anyone add anymore info or figure out if its just I who is
>recieving this mail?

I get that shit all the time. Using a "dumb" reader (Agent) is more
than sufficient to take care of any worries about accidentally
executing the thing. But using Norton Systemworks to scan my incoming
mail provides a very nice additional level of protection. It also
scans my outbound mail to help make sure I'm not passing any virii
("viruses" for those of you in Rio Linda) along to others. Again,
Agent pretty much prevents that from happening anyway, but the scan is
a nice addition.








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