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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning
  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:14:49 -0500

This virus warning is a scam started in 2006. It wants you to click
on a site so it can infect your computer. Look on www.scopes.com.

---- Original Message ----
From: sdw12986@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:35:55 -0400

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><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
>href="mailto:dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com";>dmnorton@royaloakfarmo
>rchard.com</a> wrote:
><blockquote cite="mid:00af01c894e2$286b75b0$6601a8c0@dellxps400"
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> <div><font face="Georgia" size="2">This information arrived to me
>this morning, direct from both Microsoft and<br>
>Norton.&nbsp; The Warezov.W virus has a new strain that is so new the
>virus
>scan software has not been able to pick it up yet to protect your
>PC.<br>
> </font></div>
> <div><font face="Georgia" size="2">You may receive an apparently
>harmless e-mail titled "Mail Server Report"</font></div>
> <div>&nbsp;</div>
></blockquote>
><font size="2"><font face="Georgia"><br>
>Did you actually, yourself, receive the information from Microsoft
>and
>Norton, or is that what an e-mail, received by you, said and you are
>forwarding it on to us? I only ask because these things circulate for
>years sometimes. People see them for the first time and believe they
>are new but actually they are a couple of years old and the
>anti-virus
>programs learned how to deal with them a long time ago.<br>
><br>
>Steve<br>
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