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Re: suspicion
Posted By: Calvin, on host 216.78.31.181
Date: Monday, August 4, 2003, at 19:44:47
In Reply To: suspicion posted by Howard on Monday, August 4, 2003, at 17:30:21:

> When I got home from that trip, the first thing I did was delete over 100 spam scams from my email.
>
> Then just now I got this:
>
> "Hello there,
>
> I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
> email address. This email address will be expiring.
> Please read attachment for details.
>
> ---
> Best regards, Administrator
> sarswirw"
>
> It came from an email address that appeared to be my ISP, but my suspicious nature kicked in like a bolt of lightning. Do email addresses expire? I've never heard anything about that. And do ISP's ever begin an email in such an unbusinesslike manner? And what the heck is a sarswirw? The whole thing smells like fish to me and I'm going to be very surprised it it is on the level.
> Howard

Welcome back, Howard! Hope you had a good trip.

I received the same email message you received and contacted my ISP to have them check it out. As it turned out, it is indeed an email virus and should be deleted. My ISP never sends attachments in their emails to me, so I too was suspicous about this.

See the link below for more info on this virus.
Calvin


Link: Info on the MiMail virus

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