[muglo] Re: Look,my beautiful girl friend
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 15:23:16 -0500
Hi Everybody !
With reference to the below message re Virus - my own email to friends
may be of interest
A Happy (Virus free) New Year to you All!
Ilbert Walker
> In the last 24 hours I've received a Virus Alert email from ,
> purportedly, Microsoft urging I install the patch attached!!
>
> This is obviously false since I don't use MS products, and the grammar
> of the message is appalling (There are dangerous virus in the Internet
> now! ) Of course, this could just confirm that all the nerds at MS
> are illiterate !! :-)
>
> Have you also received this ?
>
> I deleted mine immediately - and suggest you do likewise!
>
> Under NO circumstances attempt to open the attachment!
>
> Ilbert
>
As a follow up to the above message, I received a number of replies
from friends who have been receiving similar messages for some time ,
partic Windows users.
Apparently it was either a real virus included with the attachment, or
as one person discovered upon opening , just a scam to elicit $20 in
order to download the patch! Microsoft never send such messages by
email - and don't charge for patches. The sender's address of
@microsoft.com is obvious a fake. Good advice is to check MS website
to check the virus patch's legitimacy.
But it served as a reminder to me to make regularly backups in case of
infection resulting in a crash.
(Even Macs aren't foolproof!) :-)
And a final thought? from WWW Walker's Wit & Wisdom
"The wisest of the wise may err." - Aeschylus
Please don't bother to reply unless you'd prefer to be unsubscribed
from this list :-)
On 1 Jan 2004, at 12:31 PM, Eric D wrote:
> Hi ya'll, seems like someone with a Windozes system is subscribed to
> MUGLO
> and is infected with a Windows virus.
>
> Is "sloucks" someone on this list or does anyone know a "sloucks" (if
> you
> do, chances are your computer is infected and you're running Windows ;)
>
> Eric.
>
>
>> From: sloucks <sloucks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [muglo] Look,my beautiful girl friend
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:54:22 +0000 (GMT)
>>
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>
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