Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:33:26 01/02/02
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On January 01, 2002 at 21:12:25, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On January 01, 2002 at 19:25:33, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>If it sends you an email, a message will arrive with no subject and an >>attachment. >> >>My AV software saw what it was. At any rate, hopefully he will read this. > > >Whenever I receive these emails, there is always an underscore >before the first letter of the email address and no text. I just >reply by erasing the underscore and writing a short note that >says, >"Hi, We have received an email with no text. Please resend >or check you computer for viruses. We have been told that this may >be caused by a computer virus/worm. >Regards, Steve" > >Then they receive the email (if you leave the underscore on, it >will bounce) and can take action. Posting here is only effective >if the person happens to visit here. >Steve When I recieve an email that I suspect as a virus and it means an email that includes an attachment that I did not expect I do the following actions: 1)I click view->layout and there is a small square with the letters show preview pane I delete the v from this square 2)I click on file work off line(there were some cases when I did not do 2 and I am not sure if it is necessary but I remember an advice to delete viruses off line in state with no preview from someone who sent a virus) 3)I delete the email without looking in it 4)I do the opposite actions to 1 and 2. I never reply the sender directly because I am afraid to be infected by the virus only from looking at the address of the sender. There was even one case when I deleted in this way a message that did not include an attachment from someone when the title was norton anti virus because I read here that his computer is infected and I was afraid to be infected by the virus because my anti virus warned me that I got some infected email and it could not delete it. I may send an email to the sender only if I know the sender's address not based on the sender's email. Uri
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