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Re: ADMIN - Virus detected on Ausrail message sent 15/4



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On 15 Apr 00, at 15:49, Paul Hogan wrote:

> Aus loco discussion mailing list
> 
> 
> Further to the message from "GS", my virus scan detected a problem on the
> message entitled "Indian Pacific via Melbourne" from "loco 621".  Not
> trying to dob you in Ivan, but it looks like you have an infected mail
> system.
> 
>  In my case Norton disabled the unsafe component to allow it to be read,
> but it may be safer to just delete the message.

Of course you only have anything to worry about if you use 
Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express for you e-mail.  Stay 
away from those and you are perfectly safe.  Pegasus for 
example, reports that there is some kind of binary part to the 
message but doesn't recognise and safely ignores it.


Albert
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alberta@zip.com.au                 
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~alberta


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