[Qcwa] Virus Problems

[Bob Wilder]

It is obvious that many on the reflector do not know how a virus is 
propagated.  99 and 44/100 percent of the time, as the old Ivory soap 
commercial said, a virus is forwarded unknown by the person whose e-mail 
address it came from.  This Klez virus takes the subject of one e-mail, the 
e-mail address from a second e-mail and applies the virus to the 
combination and then sends it to a third address.  In some cases it is to a 
person and in other cases it is to a general reflector such as this 
one.  Sometimes it is possible to backtrack the origin from the headers on 
the message.  If you think you have received a virus it is best to delete 
the message.  Be sure to also delete the attachment which may be stored on 
your hard drive.  Just deleting the message does not clear the stored copy. 
If you do not have an anti-virus program running you should get one at 
once.  There are some  excellent programs you can use and some are even 
free just for the time to download them.  The one I use, AVG, is a good example

73

Bob Wilder, AF2HD/AFA2HD
6032 Idlemoore Court
Theodore, AL 36582-4036
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