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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Norman
Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Roy,
>
>thanks for the details - we are actually covered and it wasn't an HTML email
>this time either. We were in the middle of updating the dat files when we
>got hit. Investigations (aka witch hunt ??) has found this total stupidity :
>
>consultant from sister company opens email from a friend on his lap top.
>Sees fancy new screen saver, and opens it (oops !)
>Suddenly realises what happened and puuls the network cable out PDQ.
>(So far so good - did the right thing, apart from opening the attachment,
>but ...)
<SNIP>
Nice story. The woman I had to visit for the virus deletion quite
blithely said ' Oh I got the Love Bug Virus too' some people never
learn. The Badtrans thing is doubly duplicitous because there is the
attachment and a bit of script hidden in the HTML which will also cause
damage.
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Roy Wood
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