Re: Don't read the "Sooner or Later..." post

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/21/04


Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:04:08 -0500

You know Bill I was thinking about this post. It may be that his virus scanner picked up the IE exploit in the link when it scanned the post. That could explain why he got what he did. That's all I can figure. I guess he\she may have a very "robust" virus scanner.

-- 
George Hester
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"Bill Sanderson" <Bill_Sanderson@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message news:uGzd4773DHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> This has every earmark of an urban legend and troll combined.
> 
> If you were hit without action other than opening the email, you have a 
> serious security deficiency which is fixable--I'm quite surprised that you 
> don't seem to be interested in finding out more about that.
> 
> What version of Windows?
> What email client?  What version?
> 
> "ty" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:26C0E529-AE36-4B83-978B-5746C4B710DD@microsoft.com...
> >I read that post and was hit with some exploit virus.  My scanner caught it 
> >and delete it, but I'm posting this to make sure no one else gets hit.  And 
> >no, I didn't click the link.  I just read the post and it automatically hit 
> >me. 
> 
> 


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