Sorry James if this is the wrong topic tag. I send an original message (as apposed to a reply) only a few times a year, so I forget the details and I'm not on line right now. I just received two messages directly to me with the email address I only use on the PIClist. I assume some others probably got them too. These messages may contain viruses. Each had an attachment that was named .doc.bat. My advice is DON'T OPEN IT!. This is one of the sneaky ways viruses get into your system. Some people have the setting "Don't show file extensions of know file types" enabled, so this will appear like a harmless ".doc" file. However it is really a ".bat" file, which can do whatever it wants on your computer if you are dumb enough to run it. Of course the kind of people that leave know file extensions off already flunked the first intelligence test, so they are more likely to invite a virus in too. I looked at the BAT files, and they contained mostly binary, which is even more suspicious. Here is the full message with header, up to the attachment: Received: from mail.net1plus.com by cognivis.com ; 2001 JUL 24 21:05:45 EDT Received: from mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz ([203.96.92.15]) by mail.net1plus.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59765U14000L1700S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:45:51 -0400 Received: from PHOENIX ([210.55.124.208]) by mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz with SMTP id <20010724222915.EVUM4145347.mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz@PHOENIX> for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:29:15 +1200 From: staff@blueberry.co.nz (Blueberry Country Ltd) To: olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM Subject: Failure on any CONDITITONS OF STORAGE date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:37:34 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----7E18732A_Outlook_Express_message_boundary" Content-Disposition: Multipart message Message-Id: <20010724222915.EVUM4145347.mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz@PHOENIX> ------7E18732A_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: message text Hi! How are you=3F I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later=2E Thanks ------7E18732A_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: application/mixed; name="Failure on any CONDITITONS OF STORAGE.doc.bat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Failure on any CONDITITONS OF STORAGE.doc.bat" ******************************************************************** Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu