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Warning -- Do NOT open any newsgroup postings with attachments...
ALL of the postings with attachments you are currently seeing in the
Excel newsgroups ALL have viruses -- DO NOT OPEN. Be suspicious of any posting that is 6 KB or higher, if it doesn't look right -- don't open it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachments are basically only acceptable in binary newsgroups, those that have "binary" in their newsgroup names. There are very few exceptions to that and the Excel newsgroups are not an exception. Attachments greatly increase posting sizes, taking up much additional space on your computer, transmissions times, and storage on newsservers and can contain viruses. Also look for large posting sizes currently most of these postings with viruses are greater than 128K, and purport to deliver or inform you about a "Patch", or an "Update", or "Fix" with other words thrown in. i.e. Apply that important update. Prove these corrective patch ALL of the postings with attachments you are currently seeing in the Excel newsgroups ALL have or had viruses -- DO NOT OPEN. Many are to made to look like they com from Microsoft -- they don't. Viruses create forged headers, the sender is almost always not whom it appears to be so don't email the person telling them they sent you a virus in email, or to a newsgroup.. The from and to are filled in at random from collected email addresses. If you have Outlook Express 6, you can select a newsgroup posting and delete it. If you hold the SHIFT key when you delete, it will be permanently deleted, which is your safest choice if in doubt. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm |
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