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Re: WARNING---Virus Alert

Written by Aussie girl at 03 Jun 2002 16:51:38:

As an answer to: Re: WARNING---Virus Alert written by rjk at 31 May 2002 22:42:50:

>>>Thanks Phillip, but a little late. I received my viruses yesterday and the day before.
>>You have resorted to lying now, Aussie Girl?

According to my pc cillin virus log, on 2002/05/21 it trapped WORM_BADTRANS.B and PE_Magistr.B

The following day, I opened Ozemail through Outlook Express, which was at the time, my secondary address for yahoo, and any advertising etc is sent there by yahoo instead of to my yahoo account. In there I found "Snowhite and the Seven D..." and the virus was called "WORM_HYBRIS.M". This was in two separate emails sent 15 minutes apart. Because they were in Outlook Express, the trick was to delete them without opening them, which only gave me a few seconds, but I right clicked on them, and successfully deleted them without opening. As they were worms, I was worried they may have attached themselves to my mailing list and sent themselves off, but after sending emails to my friends to ask them, there has been no negative response, so I'm assuming this hasn't happened.

Since this happened, I've had difficulty getting into my Yahoo account quite often, and I don't know if the viruses caused it, or if it's just a problem with the site. I have never once stated that AJ sent the virus, but he was certainly my prime suspect in my mind. You can see the exact words I wrote in the forwarded sentence above. I hope this will now put all the crap to rest.


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