"Alf Peake" <alf### [at] peake42freeservecouk> wrote in message
news:40488b11$1@news.povray.org...
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:404### [at] hotmailcom...
> > I have not had that one. I am quite sure
> > that if you look at all the headers you will
> > find that the mail was not sent from the
> > pov-ray news server and that the sender
> > is a totally faked address.
>
> Yes, I know that. Amongst other things, this virus looks on _your_ PC
> for valid addresses to use :(
>
> My post was intended as a caution to others.

Noticed your word of caution message a little while after getting what might
have been a similar thing, but since I hadn't looked beyond the e-mail
address being from povray.org too I didn't bother with it, thinking it a
fluke at the time.

One arrived just now (a NetSky virus) from 7se### [at] netplexaussieorg and
interestingly enough it appears it might be taken from the following message
post:
http://news.povray.org/povray.documentation.inbuilt/message/%3CX### [at] netplexaussieorg%3E/

Needless to say there's a plague of these going on the past few months. I
lost count, whereas a year or more ago I never got anything.

My mother calls to tell me about getting them occasionally and keeps asking
me when they'll stop showing up at her inbox. She actually seems to get more
than I do and I tend to blame her large network of friends, e-mailing every
friend and relative they know of which must eventually number in the
hundreds. They'll run any kind of strange executables at the drop of a hat,
or did moreso in the past, so I refrain from any contact if I can prevent
it.  :-)

-- 
Bob H.
http://www.3digitaleyes.com

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