"DVD Doc" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 05:17:53 GMT, "righter" > wrote:
>
> >
> >"Old Nick" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:03:26 GMT, Screener1 >
> >> vaguely proposed a theory
> >> ......and in reply I say!:
> >> remove ns from my header address to reply via email
> >>
> >> Bee in bonnet.
> >>
> >> Don't be too derisive about the infected.
> >>
> >> I "trialled" one of these attachments. I ran a latest update (that
> >> day's) virus checker over it (CA's AV)...clean. Then I checked it with
> >> updated malware checkers...clean. I had a firewall running. I started
> >> the trojan. It broke straight through the firewall, even wehn
> >> completely blocked, and although the firewall could "see" the trojan
> >> programme, it simply generated no traffic. I had all sorts of reasons
> >> and excuses from the makers of the firewall.............ecepe that
> >> another firewall _did_ catch the trojan every time.
> >
> >Amazing. Thanks for the warning, I don't have that kind of expertise to
> >remedy a situation like that.
>
> Just don't click on anything that looks so stupid from the header
> anyway

Of course. I get, from time to time, about 30 virus attempt notifications
on this email address that my isp intercepts. There're actually isps out
there that don't crack down on virus spreading and data mining spam among
their subscribers. I used to get 20 fake Microsoft patch virus emails a day
until my isp did something about it. But I was never dumb enough to
download any of them.