this last day, I've gotten about a dozen emails from random people (some working for Verizon, Winzip, etc) with the subject line "hi" or "test". All messages are about 32 kb, and contain a zipped attachment file (which I obviously didn't open). Has anyone else been getting these?

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Pyro Universe The ultimate place for fireworks lovers! Learn how to put on your own show! Fireworks diagrams, instructions, pictures, safety tips, links, and a message board.

sounds like something I used to get for about a year, and only stopped around sometime this last summer. :x

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Do you have stairs in your house?

I haven't but there is a new worm going around

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20040120/tc_nf/23028

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Not me.

I just get email in frickin' haxor talk

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)
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[Insert anti-windows pro-linux flamebait here]


Viruses coming via email is really, really easy to avoid, just by following this advice: DONT OPEN ATTACHMENTS...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

its still annoying though to get an inbox full of them :\

at least with most ad-spam you can click the little links to remove you from their lists. most people don't take the time to do that, but I've actually started doing it and have noticed a huge decrease in my spam intake... obviously, though, viruses aren't going to provide the same courtisy

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Not a worm, an email virus. A virus usually requires the user to do something... Run an application, usually. Worms, on the other hand, spread without user interaction.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

I knew that

STOP LOOKING AT ME!!!!

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

GBK info to go.

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Madquack and Firbnic have a signature.
*Remnant Temple beta almost done*
Light And Darkness

Oh, great! Another POS to worry about!

No, I haven't gotten any...yet...

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 26, 2004).]

WTF?


There IS a new virus out; "Novarg I wonder if there will be any other new viruses before Feb...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Where can I get a demo?

And what happens after the 30 day trial? Does it stop stuffing up your HD?

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Founder of the Massassi Brute Squad (MBS)
Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum
(I can see your house from up here)
"But he's not going to carry you three" said Death.
"Why not?"
"It's a matter of the look of the thing"
"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it" said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse"

"I am the signature virus! Copy me into your signature so that I can take over the world! Moohahahee!"

Great! I got some of those
"test" and
"Hello" or "Hi"
emails today. I deleted them. Here is a list of the email addresses I got them from, though, after reading on some of the new viruses, they may be fake addresses to hide their origins.

I also heard that there was a new virus intended to, on Feb 1, shut down/crash the Linux Computer system because Linux is filing lawsuits against users who used copyrighted code.

And I got this message, too.


Believe me, I NEVER SENT A VIRUS TO ANYONE, at least not deliberately!!!

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 27, 2004).]

Some "Kirby" sent me a "Hi" e-mail today.. I almost opened the damn thing because I thought it was Brandon.

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Map-Review | Digital Core | The Matrix: Unplugged

Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

I've gotten a ton of those lately in 3 of my email accounts (one school, one personal, and one for my band) and I've run Anti-Virus software on my computer (which I got updated last night btw) and my computer is clean. This virus spam mail is sooooo annoying though.

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please

I run live update on NAV every time a virus makes the news. I should do it more, but I forget.

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--Hinch
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