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Re: virus threat- warning about postcards.com

To: "Paul Asgeirsson" <pasgeirsson@worldnet.att.net>,
Subject: Re: virus threat- warning about postcards.com
From: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:00:03 -0700
That includes ones that come in the mail :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Asgeirsson" <pasgeirsson@worldnet.att.net>
To: <bjshov8@comcast.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: virus threat- warning about postcards.com


> Good tip!!
>
> The legitimate greeting card type sites will always give a name of the
> sender.  And if you still don't know who it is, get rid of it!!
>
> A decent rule is, If you are even a tiny bit suspicious, get rid of it, as
> in never open it.
>
> Pa
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bjshov8@comcast.net>
> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:17 PM
> Subject: OT: virus threat- warning about postcards.com
>
>
>> I received a couple of messages today from postcards.com.  They say that
> "a family member has sent you a greeting, click here".  I was checking my
> messages through webmail and not Outlook so I thought it might be safe to
> open the message.  In the message I realized that if I clicked on the link
> to download the greeting, it would try to save a .exe file to my hard 
> drive.
> While I was pondering how to safely exit out of the browser window, Norton
> pops up and tells me that it just intercepted a virus being saved to my 
> hard
> drive.  So be on the lookout for messages like this.
>>
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