Suzanna and Darrell

>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:05:48 -0700
> From: Tia Leschke <leschke@...>
>Subject: Re: Re: Cottonwood Farm - virus warning


>>There is an email from Cottonwood Farm in my inbox waiting to be
>>opened. How does this virus work?

>I'm pretty sure attachments are stripped off posts to this list. No
>attachment - no virus.
>Tia

I also got the email from Cottonwood Farm, with an attachment. It didn't
come through the list. The virus apparently caused itself to be
automatically sent to addresses on the "sender's" computer. Before we got an
anti-virus program we got that same virus, and it autimatically sent itself
to every email address listed anywhere on our computer, not just in the
address book. A friend of ours told us how to get rid of it, but that email
was saved on our old computer, not this one. I am sure that you could find
out on the symatec website. This time our anti-virus caught it immediately
and quarantined it!

I no longer open attachments that I am not expecting, or that the sender
doesn't include a message telling me that they are sending the attachment
and what it is for. All but one of the viruses that we got on our old
computer were unwittingly sent by people we knew (or at least by their
computers). So only opening attachments from people you know is not safe. If
I get an attachment from someone I know, I will email them back and ask them
about it before opening it. If it is from someone I don't know, I just
delete the message - attachment and all - without opening it.

Suzanna