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John Schwery <[log in to unmask]>
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Echurch-USA The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 May 2004 06:46:37 -0500
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Phil, yep, puters are wonderful and some people surely misuse them.

earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>You know, I was thinking, since there is another virus going around, I mean
>a computer virus, and they claim it is a worm so it doesn't need to come as
>an attachment to work?  Well, I suppose that's true and although I have read
>all sorts of things about computer viruses, including worm viruses, and had
>one once many years ago when running a bulletin board system, and even had a
>friend once whose job for a large company was to do nothing but test and
>study viruses, I still get a laugh at all this junk mail I get.  Sure, some
>of them have viruses.  You should see my quarantine folder Norton keeps.
>One day, a couple of years ago, I got 75 viruses in one single day and about
>10 to 15 each day thereafter for a week.  No fooling.  One advantage I have,
>however, is having several possibilities of email addresses.  In every case
>except one, the viruses, plus the junk mail, comes to me using my website
>mailing addresses.  Only one time did someone figure out how to run a virus
>through comcast.net to everybody with a bogus warning of a virus and asking
>you to click on a link for the fix.  Sure and thank you but I already new
>about the hoax.  Did you know that you can get an email which warns you of a
>virus and when you click on the link the literally has MSN as the website, a
>bogus URL will capture your log on to MSN and redirect it to the virus
>website which looks just like MSN?  I called a company advertising on
>national TV and radio and told them about this happening to them by someone
>trying to under cut their prices for their product.  They already knew it
>but if you logged on a second time right away, you went to the real website.
>Very tricky.  Man, some people must live a twisted boring life.  Aren't
>computers wonderful?
>
>Phil.
>
>
>I Flew Kites With Jesus
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com

John

   No one is perfect, but some of us are closer than others

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