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Thread #74629   Message #1303780
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
22-Oct-04 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Spreading Viruses Trick
Subject: RE: Tech: Spreading Viruses Trick
I was pottereing around our public info DB at work yesterday & being curious I opened several of the type of spam that I just delete at home. ps, it was perfectly safe as our firewall had removed the viruses.

They are the ones that say Re: (something) or in the case of the ones at work they said Re: VIRUS REMOVED (something) so I knew they were ok to open.

Sneaky bastards, they said the messages had been scanned with McAfee or other antivirus product, so innocent souls would be likely to open them!! And out innocent Gatekeeper (who does not use the internet apart from the limited access we have at work behind out gi-normous Government firewall) had sent the automatic reply saying send again cos you had a virus.

Here's one (misspelled as is often the case)
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re approved infromation


Your document.
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Bitdefender AntiVirus - www.bitdefender.com

KWF Email scanner found a virus in following attachment:
    Name:    information.txt
.scr
    Content type: application/octet-stream
Additional information from antivirus:
    W32/Netsky.p@MM
Attachment has been removed by firewall.
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