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This E-Mail did not come from any of our servers. It contains the following virus... Norton AntiVirus removed the attachment: Zip 100 (D).LNK.scr. The attachment was infected with the W32.Bugbear.B.Dam virus. Dont open it! Clint
Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent
All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing
... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))
He means a scrap file from an infected person's computer, mailing itself out, probably to everyone in that person address book. Not sure how widespread this may be, but be on guard, folks. I wouldn't think most people would be dumb enough to open the attachment, but then again, a lot of people ARE that dumb, because viruses wouldn't spread far if they weren't. Hell, I usually delete anything at all questionable unread, but not everyone is so cautious. I just wanted to warn everyone to be on the lookout for this.:)
Bugbear is an older virus, a year or something like that, so it won't be as widespread as a new virus. OTOH, I received several specimens of Swen last two days. :-) When that one started several months ago, I was getting several hundred infected mails daily. BTW, sorry for not explaining better. Scrap file is a file format, used by Windows for that thing with Clipboard. Virus is the scrap file. BTW, an antivirus program I can recommend is NOD32: www.eset.com Better than Norton. Other things needed to secure your computer against viruses are: a firewall (www.zonelabs.com for ZoneAlarm) and a spyware remover/innoculator, like Spybot Search & Destroy (don't know the link), cause it prevents Trojans and backdoors from settling in your computer.
-- erlik
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