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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:59 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] user doc for email attachments and web surfing
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
email question - do we need to fear anything in an email with no
attachments (other than spoofed links) ?
Attachment viruses have calmed down considerably, most of them are
just links to .exe files on the web now, promising either money or
tits.
They're surprisingly successfull, though :)
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