Heads up to thos of you out there that still don't get it about opening attachments for unknown sources...

The E-mail description is "Important Message from (Initials of Organization)"

Text of the message reads "Here's the document you asked for... don't show it to anyone else :-)"

The virus is contained in the file bake sale.doc...

I've had about 30 dumped into my mailbox since lunch time...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 09, 2000

Answers

Thanks Carl - It seems like the viruses are proliferating exponentially - Be on alert

-- Bob (bmoss3@prodigy.net), February 09, 2000.

As near as I can tell, someone compromised am e-mail alert system for an Orange county, California, procurement site, least the warning I got were addressed from that domain, although why their virus detection system didn;t catch an old dog like this before it dropped it's payload is beyond me, unless it's faster on incoming, and handles outgoing as an afterthought...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 10, 2000.

Just curious...I received/won a "free" trip to the Bahamas the other day. I deleted the thing. Also a "free" business package, install immediatly," deleted message.

Could these be freebies be a problem.

Years ago I had a small business and would get calls stating I had won this or that. I told them to send it over. "Well it doesn't work like that. You have to make a purchase of x$'s and then we enter you into the contest to see if you are the winner."

Do people sneak viruses into the system with these messages?

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), February 10, 2000.