"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from Pam Moore contains these words:
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:35:19 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

In case anyone else gets this...

I've just had a message purporting to come from my ISP (Virgin.net),
saying that a lot of spam has been coming from my e-mail address, and
suggesting that my computer had become infected by a trojan, and that
I should follow the instructions in the attachment.

This surprised me a little, as I have efficient and reputable
anti-virus etc. software. When I downloaded the message (I read it
first through Mailwasher), my a-v software detected a virus in the
attachment and deleted it.

So the whole thing was a hoax and a means of spreading its own virus.
You have been warned!

BTW, it says on Virgin's website that they never send attachments to
e-mails.

Chris, I had a suspicious email appearing to be from virgin.net (my
isp) a few days ago. I had recently installed Avast, a free antivirus
program (on top of two others!) and it seems very efficient. It even
speaks and has picked up a few dubious incoming messages already.
Had it not done so on this I would have assumed it was OK, being from
Virgin. As I was warned, I deleted it
We cannot be too careful.

Most of these e-mails come in HTML and a lot can be activated just by
opening them in some mailreaders.

smug

Whatever form a scumpackage takes, Zetnet's mail/news handling program
lets you open and read the text (if any) without troubling any
attachment or HTML trap. I've been on the Internet for over nine years
now, and have never got a virus or Trojan. Lovely program! I've
downloaded hundreds of them with mail, but in order to become infected,
one must first decode the attachment and then deliberately run it. The
program does not render HTML.


Neither does Outlook Express if you disable HTML, I have mine set to plain
text and cannot recieve HTML emails....that is to say, the writing is in
plain text, the HTML crud is in an atachment, which get's binned.