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Old 14th April 2004 | 12:00
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mazzy1026

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This all started for me too about 2 months ago. I have an ntl email address which is relatively good regarding junk - I dont give it out etc so dont really receive any junk mail. However, one day I received about 2 emails all similar to the above, with the virus attatched and some cheeky arse comment like 'heres the file you wanted' - in a zip archive with extensions like .pif or .bin .rtf etc.

As the days went on, I was getting maybe 3-4 then sometimes maybe 7-8 a day, this was really starting to get on my t1ts.

The weird thing is that I use AVG antivirus, Spybot S&D, Spyware blaster etc etc and the Sygate personal firewall. AVG was set to scan every email so sometimes it would tell me it had been moved to the virus vault and sometimes it couldnt do it. Yet when I ran a virus scan, I was infected twice with the virus, and then ran it again a month later and hey presto, there it was again! How is the virus getting onto the system if AVG sais it picks them up? I am using Outlook 6 etc.

Cheers

Maz
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