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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 6:06 am
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Posted by P. Harvey (3 messages posted)

To Tom Swanson:  Here is the copy of the problem e-mail as I received it:

Tuesday, June 17, 2003  8:58 a.m.

(There was a large "i" in shown on a sheet of paper followed by this message.)  Message 
Could Not Be Displayed.

MSN Mail could not retrieve the message body from MSN Hotmail.  Check to make sure 
you are still connected, and then try again.

__________________________
MSN Mail

That was the extent of the message.






On Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 10:28 am, Tom Swanson wrote:
>It would help to know what message appears on your server and reloads to your email. 
>This could be virus, trojan or something that MS thinks you need to see. 
>
>I'd suggest running Spybot (which finds different things than Norton) immediately. 
>See link...
>http://security.kolla.de/
>
>You might run Norton Online scan also. Visit their site.
>A more descriptive rundown on this email is needed to do any more for you.
>
>
>My concern is that this message is loaded on the MSN server and that it reloads 
>on 
>to my PC every time I contact MSN for email........
>I have repeatedly deleted the offending email from >So what should I do next?
>
>Thanks for your time and help.
>Patricia.
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Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 10:28 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 11:57 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 12:06 pm)

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Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (P. Harvey: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 9:53 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Kuff: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 10:12 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Ricer46: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 11:17 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Kuff: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 11:19 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 2:21 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 2:07 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (P. Harvey: Sat, Jun 14, 2003, 7:06 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Sat, Jun 14, 2003, 10:28 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (P. Harvey: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 6:06 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 11:57 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Tom Swanson: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 12:06 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (johnny14: Sun, Apr 4, 2004, 2:20 pm)

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