Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 01:48:44 01/02/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 04:33:26, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I propose much easier steps, and you need to make them only once. 1. Delete Outlook. 2. Install Pegasus (freeware). -Andrew-
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