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Greetings All, My apologies for the late response. As an IT professional, I can certainly tell you that any .exe file would be suspicious. Some email worm viruses replicate themselves and send an attachment to everyone on your email address book. If in doubt, look at the name of the .exe file that is attached, and go to Norton's website. Do a search for the name of the .exe file on their site, and if you find anything, read the documentation, which will tell you how to deal with it. Another excellent website is www.cert.org. This is Carnegie Mellon's software site, and they keep track of Viruses and keep track of vunerabilities. Hope this helps- Zach Bair CEO Immediatek, Inc. Dallas, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Bob Saville'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:29 AM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Virus infested e-mail > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > > Bob, > > I would treat that attachment as an explosive device. > > I ONLY open attachments with these suffixes: > .jpg > .gif > .msg > > I treat these attachment types as almost certain viruses: > .exe > .com > .vbs > .scr > .bat > .pif > > Anything else, I treat as very suspect because even Word, Excel and other > documents can contain script viruses. > > I would only open an executable file (second category) if I had talked to > the sender and pre-arranged to have that file sent to me AND had saved it to > disk and had my virus checker inspect it. Be sure your virus check program > has up-to-date signature files because if your signature file is old, you > could easily miss the newest, most active viruses. > > I've stayed virus free for 17+ years of active e-mailing. > > Ed Burkhead > http://edburkhead.home.insightbb.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Saville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] RE: Virus infested e-mail with subject: A very > good tool... > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > I have a message in my 'inbox' with a subject of "First flown in 1929as > a Hornet, the sender is > tucson Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and it has an attachment with a .exe in > the address. > Did anyone else receive this message? Does anyone know who is sending > this and is it safe to open? > I have Norton Works with anti-virus but I'm a little shy of the exe in the > attachment. > I don't want to delete it until I find out if it's on the level and > rally is something interesting. > > Thanks, > > Bob Saville > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > Yes, I got an e-mail from a known member, and didn't hesitate to open > it....A > > VIRUS...Luckly, I have Norton Symantic anti-virus installed, and it caused > no > > problem. However it had a different subject line from this one. > > > > I did e-mail the member whose e-mail it came from...tho I recognize even > they > > might not have known their computer was abscounded by the virus... > > > > Regards, > > > > Harry Francis > > ================================================================== > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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