[South Florida DX Association] Fw: Special Virus Warning

[bmarx@bellsouth.net]

The following excerpt from the ARRL Newsletter should be brought to the attention of all of the members as a precaution?
WA4YLD,TOM

* Bogus ARRL.net messages still circulating: E-mail messages purporting to
be from the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service
<http://www.arrl.org/members-only/emailfwd.html>, "The ARRL.net team" or
some variation continue to show up in members' inboxes. The messages,
which often carry a subject line along the lines of "Warning about your
e-mail account," indicate that the recipient's ARRL E-Mail Forwarding
Service <call sign>@arrl.net address will be closed within three days
because of an alleged violation of acceptable practices. These messages
are false and did not come from The ARRL Forwarding Service. They are the
result of one of the variants on a number of viruses now permeating the
Internet. A file usually is attached to these messages. As always, do not
open any attachments that you cannot identify. Opening the file could
result in your computer being infected by a virus. This is only one of the
several virus-laden messages currently propagating across the Internet.
The ARRL advises its members to be cautious in opening any message and/or
attachment, even if it appears to be from someone you know. All of these
viruses use e-mail addresses from the address book of an infected computer
to falsify the "From:" address in the header to make it appear that the
message is from someone the recipient knows.