Hi Thomas:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:24:31 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

<snip>

> There has been an epidemic of this virus among members of an aromatherapy
list,
> many of whom use Outlook Express with its house-of-cards security.  I received
> two messages containing what appeared likely to be the New Improved Badtrans,
> which I saw as base64 code and declined to decode.  I noticed _ prepended to
the
> From-address, thus in the extremely unlikely event that such a message came
from
> you, the From: line would look like

> From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> So when I reply to tell them they have a virus, I edit out this leading
> underscore.

Very acute observation, Thomas!  I failed to notice the underscore
prepended to the email address of the person whose computer
purportedly sent the virus to my machine.  I have reviewed the
message containing the copy of the virus that I received and I too
noticed the underscore prepended to the email address of the
purported sender.  Also I should like to mention that my copy of
the virus also was disguised as an MP3 file.

Sam Heywood
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