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Chuck
I believe you said you used McAfee. I use Norton's and it does warn
about files. Plus it always seemed easier to update than
McAfee
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[mailto:CRLeBeau@xxxxxxx]Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 3:42
PMTo: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re: [RT] Re:
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size=2>In a message dated 6/1/01 11:48:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ibe98765@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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TYPE="CITE">Just curious, but why did you open a .vbs file that arrived by
email anyway? Good question. Its a
bizarre set of coincidences - As luck would have it I was expecting an
e-mail from the same company that sent me the infected message. Even the
subject was exactly on-topic because we had been discussing advertising on
their Homepage. Because I was expecting a message from them I just
opened the file without checking it first. I always check unexpected
messages and messages from strangers. (Had I noticed that it was a
VBS file I might have hesitated but I didn't even bother to check to see
what kind of file I was opening.) I'm pretty careful (almost paranoid)
and this is my first experience with a virus of any kind. I somehow
thought my virus protection software would warn me before I opened the
file. Big mistake. In the future I will be more careful even
on messages I am expecting to receive from people I know. Any advice
on software that might have warned me before I opened that file? I
got lots of messages from people who received the virus from me. They
knew exactly what kind of virus it was and didn't open it. Is that a
difference in personal knowledge or are they using better software?
Thanks for your interest in my off topic problem. I'm mostly
interested in how I can avoid such problems in the future. Chuck
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