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Jarrid Gross wrote:
> Piners,
>
> No, I think he is a member of our list,
> and has been infected, and the virus is using his address book
> to proliferate.
>
> The sad thing is that somehow he got infected.
>
> Tisk tisk.
>
> Never blindly open attachments.
> Know what the various file types are,
> and thier ability to mess with your system.
>
> Heres a short refresher of various file attachment
> types, and you they can affect you.
>
> .EXE, .COM
> Executible files can harbor viruses, or can be designed for
> damage. Clicking on one of these gives almost full permision
> to the file to do what it wishes.
>
> .DLL, .OCX
> Runtime libraries, when installed over legitimate ones, can harbor
> routines that do more than they are supposed to. Let only instalation
> programs handle these files.
>
> .BAT
> Batch script file, can do damage using operating system
> commands, not typically used, but should be mentioned.
>
> .VBS
> Visual basic script, they language of choice for virus perps
> not smart enough to program in a real language.
> VERY COMMON method of infection.
>
> .DOC, .XLS, .anthything from microsloth office.
> These files CAN contain VBA code, which microsloth
> has given nearly full authority to system resources from within
> thier office suite. Opening a .doc or .xls attachment from someone
> else can infect you too.
> VERY COMMON method of infection.
>
> .JS
> Java script, similar in function to .VBS.
>
> .HTM, .HTML
> Hypertext markup language, used to send you to a web page,
> where thier server rapes your computer. Dont even get me started
> with cookies. Its very common for send friends a link to some cool
> web site, but if someone you DONT know sends you an email, with
> text that means nothing to you, and has a link, you are asking for
> trouble by clicking on it.
> Also, when a spammer sends an email to you and it gives some BS
> at the bottom that clicking "here" will get you removed, or sending
> an email back to them with "remove" in the subject, dont do it.
> Doing so will send a "hey you hit a real email address, and I read mine"
> message back to the spammer, and you will be sold to an even more
> aggressive group of spammers, who pay MORE$$$ for non-cold
> addresses.
>
> There are also others, but these are the biggies.
>
> Jarrid Gross
>
> CANISDOG@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I got the same one so they must be getting our E-Mail Addresses from the
> > list. I never opened it because I could see it had a "exe" extension. I
> > NEVER open these unless I know who sent it.
> >
> > Paul
> > Colorado
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