hist-brewing: Virus Warning

[Angus]

I recieved one as well but with the subject "Long pepper".  My guess is that someone's found the archive.
/Angus.

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--- Andy Davison <andy.davison at btinternet.com> wrote:
>I just received an e-mail from David Murray (david at fisherrow dot co
>dot uk) entitled "Re: Re: hist-brewing: fruit" with an attachment
>called "doc.doc.pif"
>Although I don't run virus scanning software this looks like a virus
>sent by someone hiding behind AOL (I don't hink they're on AOL
>itself). Anyway, if you receive any attachment at all you should be
>very careful. If the attachment ends .pif you must not open it under
>any circumstances as it could seriously mess up Windows registry
>files. If you are using Outlook Express make sure you set receive
>e-mail as plain text only. This seems to be someone harvesting e-mail
>addresses from newsgroups and message boards and faking the header to
>suggest it came from that address rather than one which actually did
>(ie I don't think the message ever came from David Murray's computer
>in the first place).
>--=20
>Andy Davison
>andy.davison at btinternet.com
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