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Virus warning - mbulriss - 07-25-2007 15:50
I hate to post this, but if you get an email from "Hank Robb", with a
lot of 'garbage' in the subject line and the body of the email, delete
the email and do not open any attachment. It appears one of our
members, Hank Hannigan, got hacked at an internet cafe in the
Philippines or in Hawaii. Some one got his list of email addresses
and is sending a spam/virus message to his email address book. Many
of the forum members are on this list. Hank sends his apologies to
all affected members.
Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX
Virus warning - Don Bradner - 07-25-2007 16:00
If you talk to him again, tell him that the most common scenario is that HIS
computer is the one doing the sending...
Lots of variants on the scenario, of course, but someone actually using a
hacked/acquired e-mail list probably ranks down around 0.000001% of the time.
Don Bradner, who receives in excess of 100 virus/trojan e-mails per day and
considers them ho-hum nuisances, mostly dealt with without human intervention.
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Eureka, CA
On 7/26/2007 at 3:50 AM mbulriss wrote:
>I hate to post this, but if you get an email from "Hank Robb", with a
>lot of 'garbage' in the subject line and the body of the email, delete
>the email and do not open any attachment. It appears one of our
>members, Hank Hannigan, got hacked at an internet cafe in the
>Philippines or in Hawaii. Some one got his list of email addresses
>and is sending a spam/virus message to his email address book. Many
>of the forum members are on this list. Hank sends his apologies to
>all affected members.
>
>Mike Bulriss
>1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
>San Antonio, TX
Virus warning - Bob Lawrence - 07-26-2007 12:46
Read this after getting the Robb email. Started to open the attachment,
but my Norton Antivirus said this wasn't a valid email address, so
deleted it.
Bob Lawrence
84 PT36
Tacoma, Wa.
>
> I hate to post this, but if you get an email from "Hank Robb", with a
> lot of 'garbage' in the subject line and the body of the email, delete
> the email and do not open any attachment. It appears one of our
> members, Hank Hannigan, got hacked at an internet cafe in the
> Philippines or in Hawaii. Some one got his list of email addresses
> and is sending a spam/virus message to his email address book. Many
> of the forum members are on this list. Hank sends his apologies to
> all affected members.
>
> Mike Bulriss
> 1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
> San Antonio, TX
>