Grant and others who may apply,
Just so you know the garbage text in this email was a potential virus
attachment. Since it got converted to text it won't hurt anything, but as
an attachment, it would be know as the MTX@mm virus/worm. We have had a
recent experience with this at my work in fact. If you would like more
information on this topic, look here: "
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98797&; " (You will need to copy
and paste in or add the "&" since it doesn't automatically put itself into
the link if you were to simply click on it.) Please, if you have had this
or similar attachments (the web page lists commonly used file attachment
names) in other email, take a look at the web page. It can be a rough
virus. Notice the ".pif" at the end of the filename. This is ".pif"
extension is hidden by default on many Windows 95 and above machines. The
".pif" file is a script that is executable on a windows machine and used to
infect and redistribute itself randomly to people in your email address book
or contacts list. The information on this web page will help to clean it
out.
Aside: If you are on a Linux machine this won't affect you a bit. It is
a Microsoft-related security hole.
Sorry to take important oletrucks list time, but I thought it might be
pertinent. I would hate for it to take time away from truckin' if it
affected anyone's computer. also if you have an anti-virus program on your
computer, now might be a good time to update it to the most current virus
patterns.
Thanks and good luck.
--
Mike Anderson
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Subject: "No Subject"
From: Simmons-Grant
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:47:52
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