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Re: Re: Your bill



I've been getting "you email contains a virus" type messages
'bounced' back to
me from addresses I've never heard of.

Maybe someone on the list is indeed infected because one of them was from a
place which sells Powermax alarms (not in my address book).

Justin.

Quoting Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxx>:

> Keith Doxey wrote:
>
> >The cheque is in the post.. honest guv!!!
> >
> >/me wonders .....
> >
> >Is Ian being spoofed.... or has his PC caught something nasty :-(
> >
> >Thankfully attachments are removed by Yahoo :-)
> >
> >
>
> This was almost certainly not sent by Ian's computer, but someone else
> on the list. The virus using its own smtp engine and borrowing
addresses
> from the infected address book. And surely no one here would be daft
> enough to open an unsolicted attachment .... even if they did, no one
is
> too stingy to pay £40 for a good AVP so there would be no problems.
>
> Apart from the person infected, of course.
>
> --
> Calum



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