In the meantime, Paul, Ditch Outlook and get yourself a copy of Netscape
Communicator and you won't have those problems. Outlook , as Mark Bradakis
indicates is a "Virus Magnet"!
Cheers,
Joe (C)
P Richardson wrote:
>
> Hi FOTers
>
> What a bloody nightmare this virus caused. It bypassed my Norton 2001
> protection and started buggering about in my e-mail addressbook. I downloaded
> two days ago and then all types of buggeration started. People e-mailed me
> back saying they'd received messages I had not sent. One pal jokingly phoned
> me and said the virus had given him and unsociable disease!!
>
> I fear I've passed this bloody thing on to Cary Perket, Mike Cook, - and a pal
> of mine in France who's just set himself up on e.mail. Many Many apologies to
> anyone on the list I've passed the virus to.
>
> My I.T. guy spent 2 hours purging my computer last evening so Its all cleaned
> up now. He also warned that there are new viruses about now that look for
> virus protection and 'think' their way round it.
>
> In conclusion, some day soon, the computer people will know how to fire virus
> bullets back to originators. - I know you'll all join me in hoping that the
> perpetrators receive one the size of a trombone right up their backsides -
> wide end first.
>
> Apologies and best wishes
> Paul
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