Re: Virus Question

by "howardm" <howardm(at)achilles.net>

 Date:  Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:30:33 -0400
 To:  "Richard and Jolene Johnson" <jonric(at)tx3.net>
 Cc:  "hwg- basics(at)hwg.org" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  jonric
  todo: View Thread, Original
That's the virus - just delete the files - and   _don't_   open the
attachments and there will be no problem.
howardm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard and Jolene Johnson" <jonric(at)tx3.net>
To: "HWGBASICS" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Virus Question


> I don't know anything about the virus that has been discussed on this
post,
> but during the last two days I have received two strange emails, one in
> English and one in Spanish, asking me to look at the attached file and let
> them know what I think.  The one in Spanish had a file called
> ATT000something.doc.dat.  The one I got today was called
weeklygrid.doc.bat.
> In both cases, the file sizes were particularly large (about 150K).
> Naturally, I'm not going to open them unless I get a further explanation
> from the sender, but I was wondering what the list thought about this.
>
> Jolene Johnson
> http://www.tx3.net/~jonric
>
>
>
>
>

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