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Subject: Virus-warning.

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 16:00:11 07/30/01



Hello,

This is off-topic but just a warning about e-mails from unknown sources with
attachments and, generallly, just a text like "Hi! How are you? I send you this
file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks" The attachment is a
.doc.pif and the .pif only shows up in the source if you scroll it totally to
the right. In one of twenty cases the virus, the "SarCam"-virus attempts to
delete all your files on the sixteenth of october. I even received two spanish
versions of this thing. I am possibly to late to warn anybody as this was five
days ago but still, maybe this does ring a bell for somebody who opened it and
saw nothing happening, in which case you probably better look on the web for a
way to get rid of the thing.

Five days before that on another computer someone I know got something similar,
but this time it were .exe files and just random or no text. No idea yet what
that one was, probably older viruses. Maybe it has something to do with delayed
updates of virusscanners because people  are on holidays?

No hoax, this. Caveat emailopener I would say in my best pig-latin.

See you guys, and ladies!

Eelco



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