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just received my 4th copy of the same virus in about 3 hours, now I've intercepted them all before they could do damage but obviously it going around people that have me on their mailing list so be warned.

What virus is it?

can't remember & er.. i er don't havirus checker set to keep a log but give it another half hour and at this rate i should get sent it again.. it's obviously ne of those that reads ya address book though

Are the web based mail programs fairly good about keeping those things out of your inbox?

I know I got a bunch of the mail returned things a couple weeks ago that simply couldn't have been things I sent out, because I never send anything out from the hotmail account.

hotmail isn't in my experiance - if it any help this one is titled "Microsoft Update"

Ah, I believe I've seen that one too.

well if ya see iot again, delete it wiv out opening it, ta

That's what I normally do.

That's wot i like to hear


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I've had about four copies of that sent to my Uni account every day for a while now It's darn annoying...

I set up a filter for that specif one, so it gets permantly deleted as soon as I recieve it.

I had four 'MS Security Updates' with attachments in my mum's Outlook Express inbox yesterday - it looks like all her friends are falling for the dumb trick, since she never gets any spam...

Whoami?

yeah, this one seems to have had a burst of activity

i keep geting it as well i believe its routed through canada i have forwarded to msn several times it comes back "mime" being one hi dude

dude relation to history thing look on my recent convo posted in last hour to convo re articles as such my choice

if ya look at the full headers ya should be able to sus out who they are from