On 24 Jul 2001, at 15:51, Richard and Jolene Johnson wrote:

> 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.
> 
	DELETE THEM IMMEDIATELY!! That's the SirCam virus! 
There's both an english and spanish version going around. 


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