In a message dated 8/08/01 4:56:38 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Its the middle of the night and i've turned on to look up aclinical
problem [potters syndrome]that is keeping me awake and this list tells me
Ihave sent just now 4 e-mails 1 from spiritual midwifery another aabout
primal theraphy and one about starting up a home business also an e-mail
keeps reappearing that Isent days ago re guthrie what's going on .
Also there are replies about the guthrie with attachments do not open as i
am supicious Iam just going to update my virus check any ideas about whats
happening lol jan
>>
HI Jan,
I too have been getting some very obscure emails with attachments. They are
virused. I have had a friend here all weekend sorting out my contaminated
computer system, which fell victim to a virus last week. Nasty little bug -
immediately it began working its way through my system and corrupting files.
The way it works (in my limited understanding) is that the virus comes in
form of an email with an attachment. It usually appears from someone Eg: list
member who you will recognise - hence the temptation to open it. The way it
sucks you in is it usually begins with some text you have sent off to someone
else, then with the words "Take a look to the attachment" at the end. The
virus propagates by corrupting your address book and copying the emails and
sending them off to everyone in your address book. That's why you may be
seeing emails that you did not send !! Clever isn't it!!
I purchased some Norton antivirus 2001 software over the net
(http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/) cost me $39-95 US - about $75- AUS.
Cheap insurance for what it could potentially cost should these damn viruses
trash your hard disk!!! It was a very easy process (If I can do it anyone
can) and now this software reads and scans all my incoming email for viruses,
isolates them if it finds some, and automatically runs live updates for
current virus definitions from the net as I work on the Internet with
interrupting me. When I'm off line it then goes to work scanning my hard disk
for viruses with the recent definitions its just downloaded. I feel a little
safer now.
Yours in birth,
Tina Pettigrew
Birthworks
Independent CBE and aspiring B.Mid Midwife.
Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student Collective.
" As we trust the flowers to open to new life
- So we can trust birth"
Harriette Hartigan.
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