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"Emerson, Tom # El Monte" <[log in to unmask]>
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Emerson, Tom # El Monte
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Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:53:43 -0500
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After much talk about it, it *finally* showed up in my inbox -- the "real
story" of snowhite, etc., but it appears to be somewhat, if not completely,
de-fanged by Raven :)

However, it showed up twice...

Once, as a 900-ish byte message + attachment; not knowing the nature of the
beast, I "shift-deleted" it [deletes without opening nor confirmation].  I
checked on the website about it, and it appears there is some "come on" text
that entices the recipient to open the attachment, and the attachments
themselves are clearly suspect -- a randomly named, often quite suggestive,
.scr or .exe -- EXECUTABLE files!

The second instance had no such attachment and was trimmed to around 500
bytes.

I suspect, due to the size of the initial message-with-attachment, the
"attachment" was a notice that the original attachement was a known virus
and had thus been "cleaned" before transmission [however, as I said, I
deleted without looking, so I'll never know... ;) ]

Tom Emerson
Sr. Systems Analyst
NDC | e COMMERCE
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