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Posted by Kimba ® on Saturday, 1. December 2001 at 08:06 Bali Time:

In Reply to: Karen Bruce : Virus posted by Si Badak ® on Friday, 30. November 2001 at 15:30 Bali Time:

"...the sender's email address will have the "_" character prepended to it, to prevent replying to infected mails to warn the sender (eg user@website.com becomes _user@website.com)." (Symantec)

Try replying to it without the "_" at the front and see if it works?

I've received this virus quite a few times already (interestingly, only to my hotmail address, which I use on travel Forums) - a couple were sent from the dummy email addresses that the virus uses EG: 'Linda' (lgonzal@hotmail.com). (There is a full list of these in my other post from the Symantec website)

But 2 I received came from 'Janette Edmonds' and 'Miriam' - so if either of those people reads this forum, I suggest you do a system scan and fix ASAP, because it seems you're infected...

Everyone just be careful, don't open any mail where the sender's address has "_" at the front, and where attachment has 2 extensions (eg .doc.pif or .mp3.scr), and especially don't open attachments where the 2nd extension is .pif or .scr...

cheers
Kimba :o)


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