A new and serious VIRUS - warning from s

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you can change your viewing options to exclude preview, and then delete

all files straight which carry a fwd, re, etc with an attached file.. There

will always sit an attachment on those files anyhow, the virus needs it, it

doesn't come on mails without attachment- so no panic!. I had some 10 mails

with virusses from allover the world, and now I always ask back to the

sender if he really sent an attached file if he/she sent anything

important, they should resent with a certain subject line..

Another way to prevent your computer to send out virus to everyone on your

telephonelist according to McIntyre is:

'An easy way to prevent your computer sending out viruses to all members of

your address book is to put into your address book the number 0000 as an

address and nothing else. This will be filed as your first address and then

if a virus tries to send out your addresses it will fail and you will get a

message that one of your addresses is incomplete.'

I suppose its ok with that I post his advise here..

Janina

>Dear fellow herbalists!

>

>For those ho have not been warned, a new virus called W32.BadTrans.B@MM is

>doing its Christmas rounds. Unlike previous viruses it does not need

>attachment files to be carried. Even pre-viewing a document in Outlook is

>enough to activate it.

>

>I will not bore you with its epidemiology, treatment and management

>programme but there on concise therapeutics in:

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>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.bmm (DOT) h

t

>ml

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>May be changing your viewing options is (perhaps) one way to protect

>immediate infection. If you are using outlook change your view. VIEW ->

>CURRENT VIEW -> select one which doesn't give you an automatic preview.

>Proper measures are found in the above site.

>

>Seasons greeting

>

>

>s Syrimis

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>List Owner

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>Graham White, MNIMH

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The last two characters of the web address for the VIRUS FIX were dropped,

so in case you did not get through before try again. Here it is

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.bmm (DOT) ht

ml

s Syrimis

PS As it is a long address you can retype it making sure that the last file

name at the end is

w32.badtrans.b@...