There have been members and staff receiving emails that look like they are from Renderosity Administration. These emails have attachements. Do NOT open them as they may be infected with virus or worms.... and they are not from Renderosity. Usually the only mailings Renderosity sends out are the newsletter in HTML format. If you receive a suspicious correspondance, with an attachment, before you open it, it may be best to check with a staff member to be sure it is on the up and up.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

Thanks bunches for the information.:O)) I am bug prone........ as you can see in my gallary:P;) SNAKEY

We had a similar e-mail worm at work this week. Our software stripped it, but it was actually a pretty smart way to try and get people to open it. The first round, you just got an e-mail with an attachment that said it had a password, but they were nice enough to give you the password for it. Of course, you click on the attachment and you're infected. Next round of messages, the e-mail sender addresses now had our domain with the usernames of "admin", "administration" and "staff" and messages that looked like the user needed to run the attachment to protect them from the viruses/worms going around. Sneaky little [censored for delicate ears]. -=>Donald

This sort of scam is why I try to get newsletter type messages in text not HTML.

I don't see what people get by mucking up everyone elese's computer :( I run Mac's, but it still affects me if they viri get bad enough to slow down the rest of the web.

@dampeoples ... I;ll try to answer your question ... (1) some of the recent worm programs could be used to relay SPAM through the infected machines -- the expectation is that a list of those machines would be sold to SPAM providers (remailers) -- IOW, for economic reasons. (2) some seems to be done to validate the originator -- IMO, 10 times (zero) is still (zero). (3) it is entirely entirely possible that some is eco warfare ... and more to come. Sorry for this dark picture.

Thanks Michelle, always a great thing to know...thanks for looking out for us. :)

MGD - Don't forget the big one. There is a large contigent with a burning hatred of everything Microsoft and they do it just to attack the company. Many of the worms and trojans are written to specifically interface with Outlook/Outlook Express.

DHolman - I thought they did that just because it was easy. LOL BTW, one of the advantages of continuing to use Netscape 4.7x is that message folders are flat ASCII files. I can look at any message in a text editor (I use TextPad from TextPad.com) without any risk of damage/attack.

Bar-B-Q the Buggers!

Uuuhhhmmm ... OK, just let me know where they are. Thanks.