Dear Henk and Harry,

What might be happening is that someone elses computer has a virus and you are in their mailbox. That third computer is sending out messages under your names. You point out a very important aspect of remaining virus free, if you are not expecting an attachment from someone be very suspicious. If in doubt, confirm that an attachment was sent by someone before you open it up. I often send a short notice to someone before I send an e-mail with an attachment. This alerts the receiver to the fact that it is a legitimate attachment and something they asked for.

It is also polite to find out if someone can handle the attachment. Some shell images and reprints can be quite large and cause problems for those who do not have high capacity storage in the in-boxes [a problem I no longer suffer from :-)  ].

Regards,
Charlie

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Date: 5/15/2005 12:11:40 PM

Dear Conch-Lers,

What happened with Harry, is currently also going on here in Israel. During the last week I've received about 10 messages each day of refused E-mail messages, which I've never sent out. This has happened about a jear ago too. Like in the case of Harry, my personal computer is virus-free, apparently somebody has taken over my E-mail address and is distributing bogus-messages with a virus hidden in the attachment. Note that I never send out E-mails with attachments unless explained in the text of the mail. If you receive such unsollicited messages, please, don't open them. Because I'm not the sender.
Best regards,

Henk K. Mienis

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