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Ford

I always know where my towel is.

No, I didn't intend to click the link. You never know where you might end
up, but it's probably up the proverbial creek

Martin

"Matt Cushing" <matt.TakeThisOut@cushingonline.com> wrote in message
news:37f91rF5cqot2U2@individual.net...
 > Martin,
 >
 > That's prolly something on his end, not yours. I wouldn't click that
 > link, not unless you have your towel handy, know the answer to the
 > universal question is 42, and grab that book that says "Don't Panic".
 >
 > Ford Prefect
 >
 > Martin wrote:
  >> I've just had an email from bynw, its an automated message asking me to
  >> click a link to deliver a message I'm supposed to have sent with the
  >> subject line being Devlivery by mail. I've never sent an email with this
  >> in the subject so something is amiss in the state of Denmark. I don't
  >> know whether someone is "phreaking" (I think that's the expression) my
  >> email or bynws. But if you have anything along these lines, dump the
  >> message.
  >>
  >> Martin<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Martin (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<cutrqp$qmk$1@hercules.btinternet.com>:

 > Ford
 >
 > I always know where my towel is.
 >
 > No, I didn't intend to click the link. You never know where you might end
 > up, but it's probably up the proverbial creek

The one that's infested with the proverbial worms, the proverbial viruses
and the proverbial trojans.
--
Paul Townsend
Pair them off into threes

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Prai Jei wrote:
 > Martin (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
 > <cutrqp$qmk$1@hercules.btinternet.com>:
 >
 >
  >>Ford
  >>
  >>I always know where my towel is.
  >>
  >>No, I didn't intend to click the link. You never know where you might end
  >>up, but it's probably up the proverbial creek
 >
 >
 > The one that's infested with the proverbial worms, the proverbial viruses
 > and the proverbial trojans.

And if you aren't careful, you'll end up much like Marvin the android.
"It's alright, I don't mind being infested with worms..you go ahead on
without me:

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Sounds like bynw's got a virus....


  > Martin wrote:
 >
  >> I've just had an email from bynw, its an automated message asking me
  >> to click a link to deliver a message I'm supposed to have sent with
  >> the subject line being Devlivery by mail.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Oh Dear!
I fear I (or rather my school district) may be at the root of this
problem. We had a major virus in our school server a couple weeks
ago. After that I started getting similar emails (except mine have
attachments, not links) with titles like that...but mine come from the
DNC, Wrengl, and a couple other addresses I don't recognize. Hence I
delete them immediately. I did once forward something off the school
email to Pat, so that's probably how her email got mixed in this. I
don't think I ever sent anything from school to Bynw, though. (I
probably wouldn't remember his whole address). I had a couple of
these in my home email one day and then stopped getting them except at
school. I've repeatedly alerted the techie folks at my school about
this.
I hope I'm not inadvertantly spreading a virus around.
Susan -- Mistress of Complications
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Just to follow up. I've spoken with the Tech people at my school and
they say the emails I'm receiving are because someone is sending me
something bad (virus type bad) and the system is rejecting it. So
apparently the virus isn't coming from me or my school. <G>
Susan -- Mistress of Complications


unicorn636.TakeThisOut@sbcglobal.net wrote:
 > Oh Dear!
 > I fear I (or rather my school district) may be at the root of this
 > problem. We had a major virus in our school server a couple weeks
 > ago. After that I started getting similar emails (except mine have
 > attachments, not links) with titles like that...but mine come from
the
 > DNC, Wrengl, and a couple other addresses I don't recognize. Hence I
 > delete them immediately. I did once forward something off the
school
 > email to Pat, so that's probably how her email got mixed in this. I
 > don't think I ever sent anything from school to Bynw, though. (I
 > probably wouldn't remember his whole address). I had a couple of
 > these in my home email one day and then stopped getting them except
at
 > school. I've repeatedly alerted the techie folks at my school about
 > this.
 > I hope I'm not inadvertantly spreading a virus around.
 > Susan -- Mistress of Complications<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Just to follow up. I've spoken with the Tech people at my school and
they say the emails I'm receiving are because someone is sending me
something bad (virus type bad) and the system is rejecting it. So
apparently the virus isn't coming from me or my school. <G>
Susan -- Mistress of Complications


unicorn636 RemoveThis @sbcglobal.net wrote:
 > Oh Dear!
 > I fear I (or rather my school district) may be at the root of this
 > problem. We had a major virus in our school server a couple weeks
 > ago. After that I started getting similar emails (except mine have
 > attachments, not links) with titles like that...but mine come from
the
 > DNC, Wrengl, and a couple other addresses I don't recognize. Hence I
 > delete them immediately. I did once forward something off the
school
 > email to Pat, so that's probably how her email got mixed in this. I
 > don't think I ever sent anything from school to Bynw, though. (I
 > probably wouldn't remember his whole address). I had a couple of
 > these in my home email one day and then stopped getting them except
at
 > school. I've repeatedly alerted the techie folks at my school about
 > this.
 > I hope I'm not inadvertantly spreading a virus around.
 > Susan -- Mistress of Complications<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Martin (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thvsly in message
<cvtqif$t0v$1@titan.btinternet.com>:

 > I've jvst had an email from bynw, its an avtomated message asking me to
 > click a link to deliver a message I'm svpposed to have sent with the
 > svbject line being Devlivery by mail. I've never sent an email with this
 > in the svbject so something is amiss in the state of Denmark. I don't know
 > whether someone is "phreaking" (I think that's the expression) my email or
 > bynws.
 > Bvt if yov have anything along these lines, dvmp the message.
 >
 > Martin

If "Devlivery" is indeed how the word is spelt that in itself is svspiciovs
- if yov were being asked to qvery a real delivery it wovld have been spelt
correctly. Svch typos are rovtine for the virvsists thovgh, many of whom
live in the Far East or former Soviet Union and their English is rather
less than perfect.

Hint: to call attention to a typo or other oddity in something yov're
qvoting, to show that the error is in the original pvt (sic) in brackets
afterwards. (That's Latin for "like this".)
--
Pavl Townsend
Pair them off into threes

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Martin,

Virus writers are getting smarter. One sneaky thing they are doing
these days is creating viruses that can read who is in a person's
address book and then when they replicate themselves they spoof the
"From" header to imitate someone else in that person's address book
making it look as if the virus actually came from the innocent third
party.

 >From what Susan says, it appears a virus has invaded her system, picked
out Bynw's address and faked it in the header of the e-mail to make the
route of the virus that much harder to trace. I hope that helps. I also
hope Susan gets her virus problem straightened out.

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RainbowDragon wrote:
 > Martin,
 >
 > Virus writers are getting smarter. One sneaky thing they are doing
 > these days is creating viruses that can read who is in a person's
 > address book and then when they replicate themselves they spoof the
 > "From" header to imitate someone else in that person's address book
 > making it look as if the virus actually came from the innocent third
 > party.
 >
  > >From what Susan says, it appears a virus has invaded her system,
picked
 > out Bynw's address and faked it in the header of the e-mail to make
the
 > route of the virus that much harder to trace. I hope that helps. I
also
 > hope Susan gets her virus problem straightened out.
 >
 > RainbowDragon

Actually, I'm not the one getting things from Bynw. I experienced this
at my school...but from Wrengl, the DNC, and some addresses I don't
recognize. I did go to the DNC web site at school when we were doing
the election unit but I never signed up (especially not on my school
email ) for any email from them.

As far as I know, the school virus problem is resolved. That's what
the tech folks tell me.
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