Re: Code Red & Viruses in General - a plea

> to infect his system. I have received infected files in just such
> circumstances; happily, my own behaviour has been to worry a great

deal

> about such a possibility and keep my virus checking software up to
> date. So far, I have detected all such viruses before they could

do me any

> damage.
>
> So, in short, what you "feel" is safe doesn't cut it.

I recieved about 20-30 e-mails yesterday from an individual in a
company. Each one had a 200K attachment with either a .com, .pif,
or .vbs file extension. I sent an e-mail to the sender and received
no response. I then went to the web site of the company, and sent a
message to the sales department. About 15 minutes later I received
an e-mail that said that the offending machine had been removed from
their network. No more virus spam since.

It's too bad this doesn't work all the time. It's really tough to
get the attention of the sales department at AOL, ... or Yahoo. ;-)

Best Regards,

Fred Smith
IMService