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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:17 AM
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This is rich. Anyone else gotten an email from abuse@gov.us?
Just trying to spread a virus around, it would seem.

"You have visited illegal websites.
I have a big list of the websites you surfed."

Attachment

details.scr
.scr file



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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:21 AM
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1. .SCR is a Screen Saver file. Usually a virus injector.
And the domain gov.us isn't a government domain. They're simply .gov for the USA.

--bkl
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:22 AM
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2. Yeah, I get all kinds of these stupid virus emails, but this was the first
trying to pretend it was fro the government. (As if the US government refers to itself in the first person?)
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:23 AM
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3. spoofed email adress - not really from them .gov
Unfortunately the people who created the internet email protocols were a trusting lot...

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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:24 AM
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4. sounds like a virus
I personally don't give a crap what websites anyone has a list of me visiting.

Funny thing - it's freepermail; paranoid, attempting to instill fear, plus a bonus virus on your computer.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:25 AM
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5. HAHAHAHA!! You should inspect the headers...
... and see where the message really came from.

I have a hunch it's probably from Fresno, the new white trash capitol of the US and home of Frei-Republik-Bundschaft...
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