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icon13.gif Viruses can WRECK Friendships  [message #5284] Tue, 22 October 2002 09:28 Go to previous message
timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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Please be aware of how some current viruses work:
  • They grab a file from the infected PC
  • they grab an email address from a microsoft outlook or outlook express address book, OR from a random web page
  • they fake the email header
  • they send the email
  • they atempt to deposit the viurs on the recipient;s machine
  • they create a random message text and subject line
This causes odd things to happen

If it picks up a "rude picture", you will be as embarrassed as hell, by the way.

If the file enclosed is one of a saved private chat, that can be rather unfunny

So, you and your friends now fall out in a big way. A big fight happens. Tears fall.

Do make sure yout antivirus software is up to date.



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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