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Folks:

Once again there is a batch of viruses in distribution via email that are forging the 'from' address.

Please keep in mind that, if you get a virus from someone, it's probably not being sent from them at all ... but someone else with both the apparent sender and you have corresponded with.

Unfortunately, this means that it's possible for a virus to be sent to a mailing list.

I am running active virus protection (two different virus scanners, f-prot & clamav) which seems to be catching everything that has been thrown at it.

Rest assured, however, that even if the virus were to get past the virus scanner ... the virus payload would be removed from the email before it gets distributed so only the text portion of the message could possibly get distributed.

As always, please make sure you are running virus protection on your systems and that your virus definitions are up to date. A current backup doesn't hurt either :)

If you have questions about virus protection, feel free to post a message in the PCTECH mailing list (http://lists.midrange.com/listinfo/pctech) or contact me directly.

david

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