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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 or had viruses -- DO NOT OPEN. Also be suspicious of any posting that is 6 KB or higher, as they are also not likely to be plain text postings.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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", "Security" or "Fix" with other words thrown in. ALL of the postings with attachments you are currently seeing in the Excel newsgroups 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. 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 safest choice. --- 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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Warning -- Do NOT open any newsgroup postings with attachments...
Microsoft has posted a warning on their home page and a link. Wish it could
have been posted in the newsgroups at the time when most of these bogus e-mails started appearing frequently and then later started appearing in newsgroups.. http://www.microsoft.com How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine (Sep 19, 2003) http://www.microsoft.com/security/an...icate_mail.asp and includes the following topic: Example of a Bogus Bulletin Counterfeit security communications can appear quite convincing, as was the case with the fraudulent e-mail that was used to distribute the Swen worm. some examples of bogus bulletins posted today, the titles are generated by the virus by combining words and phrases so they look different, the senders email address is forged, some appear to come from Microsoft. FWD: See patch from the M$ Prove this critical update from the Microsoft Check out corrective package for Microsoft Internet Explorer Look at this pack from the MS See these critical pack for Microsoft Internet Explorer Try the correction patch from the M$ Corporation Some email or postings may contain the virus and not show up as an attachment. So far they do not look like questions but imperative commands, so that can be part of your identification. --- 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 "David McRitchie" wrote in message ... ALL of the postings with attachments you are currently seeing in the Excel newsgroups ALL have or had viruses -- DO NOT OPEN. Also be suspicious of any posting that is 6 KB or higher, as they are also not likely to be plain text postings.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. [clipped] |
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