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Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning

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

><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
><head>
> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"
>http-equiv="Content-Type">
></head>
><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
>href="mailto:dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com";>dmnorton@royaloakfarmo
>rchard.com</a> wrote:
><blockquote cite="mid:00af01c894e2$286b75b0$6601a8c0@dellxps400"
> type="cite">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name="GENERATOR">
> <style></style>
> <div><font face="Georgia" size="2">This information arrived to me
>this morning, direct from both Microsoft and<br>
>Norton.  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> </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>
></font></font>
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[NAFEX] Virus Warning, dmnorton, 04/02/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, David . Maxwell, 04/02/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, Steve, 04/04/2008
  - Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, dmnorton, 04/04/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, Ernest Plutko, 04/03/2008
  - [NAFEX] CRFG group, Stephen Sadler, 04/03/2008
  - Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, dmnorton, 04/03/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, Ernest Plutko, 04/04/2008
  - Re: [NAFEX] Virus Warning, Road's End Farm, 04/04/2008
    - [NAFEX] New CRFG group, OT?, Stephen Sadler, 04/04/2008