Um....Dan?
there wasn't any attachment to that message. at least none that I
received. fortunately windows does not live at this address either, but I
think you grossly misunderstood this poor soul. I think all he wanted to
do was warn everyone that he'd been infected in case anyone received
something they didn't want.
--
Mark
*****
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at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)"
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lanman wrote:
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus infection
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:36:24 -0400
> From: Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> On Monday 21 May 2001 7:53, you wrote:
> > Sorry for the mass email, i received an email today with the file
> > NNKGBENN.EXE attached. This contains the virus W32/Hybris.gen@MM however. I
> > am unable to tell who propagated the virus as there is no sender
> > information for the email. because of this i am sending this email out to
> > anyone i think may have this email address just incase
> > _________________________________________________________________________
> > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
> Perhaps I've misunderstood, but you're attempting to send a virus back from
> whence it came, by sending it to everyone that you think may have sent it??
> If that's the case, you've just managed to send it to thousands of people on
> the Mandrake list you idiot ! Many of these people still use some version of
> Windows, and may inadvertantly infect their computers ! What will you be
> doing tomorrow? Taking a loaded gun to school ?
>
> Of course, if I'm wrong about this, I apologise, but I received the virus
> file my self. Fortunately, Windows doesn't live here. Perhaps a conventional
> email WARNING everyone would have sufficed ??
> --
> Dan LaBine
> Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd.
> Registered Linux User # 190712
>
>
