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Old 26th Apr 2001, 11:06
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ExSimGuy
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I've had the "Snow White" in my inbox twice this week, once in English and one that was (I think) the Spanish translation. That means it came to my office desktop, my laptop, and my home machine.

But I didn't run the executable - so no infection, even though the machine at home isn't currently running any scanner (I use McAfee online on the other 2 machines)

Okay - so I'm a sm2rt@rse - I know better than to run executables unless I'm certain of them.

I recently had an email from a good friend in South Africa, with an executable, and a message that looked quite appropriate for the guy who (apparently) sent it. Before running it I emailed him to check that he sent it to me - he didn't and is now sending a circular to everyone on his mailing list warning them not to run the file that he might have sent them too!

Don't open or run attachments unless you are 101% sure of them!