Date:         Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:32:15 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: No VAN CONTENT [file type question]
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <5.1.0.14.2.20030122104730.03bb5a00@pop1.attglobal.net>
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Oh, no.  They ARE out to get me.

Mike

On 1/22/03 7:51 AM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> At 10:46 AM 1/22/2003, John Rodgers wrote:
>> It's a virus! I got a pps attachment , and my son got one as well.
>> Delete that sucker!!!
>
> It could be a virus -- but .pps is the standard extension for  a Microsoft
> PowerPoint slideshow file.
>
>
>> There are viruses out there that get into the address book, create an
>> e-mail and send it out.
>
> Or dozens, or hundreds...
>
>>  It appears that it came from someone you know,
>> but in fact it is the virus doing its thing to perpetuate itself and
>> spread.
>
> Could be indeed..
>
>>  If you don't know who it came from, or don't have a personal
>> confirmation from the sender, DO NOT OPEN IT. It will enter your machine
>> and create havoc!!!
>
> Good advice really.  Any unknown/unexpected email attachment should be
> treated with powerful suspicion verging on the paranoid.
>
> david
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>