virus in attachment?

From: rjc (rjc_365_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/22/03 

Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:26:23 -0700

sounds like a new marketing strategy for microsoft>-----
Original Message-----
>I just got an email from a friend of mine which came
with
>an attachment for a nature screensaver. He said he
didnt
>send me any attachments. When I went to open the
>attachment there was a message from hotmail
>saying, "unknown virus scanner failure virus found.",
so
>I didnt open it and deleted it. It gave me the option
of
>opening it or going to a microsoft site for virus
>protection. When I clicked on this site, it took me to:
>get more storage space for your hotmail account page. I
>did a virus scan on my computer after this happened and
>everything was ok. but this morning I went to send an
>attachment of one of my photos to a friend and I got a
>similar message, only this time saying there was a virus
>on the attachment I was sending. Again, the option took
>me to the same storage space page. When I tried to send
>the same photo later, everything was fine and this
message
>never came up. What's going on? Thanks
>.
>

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