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"Don't trust Hotmail!"

Happy new year everyone.

Anyway, I decided to download a screensaver via Hotmail today. As everyone who uses it knows, Hotmail scans for viruses in attachments using McAfee and up to now, I completely trusted it. But not anymore! As soon as the file was downloaded, this pop up appeared:

Virus Identified I-Worm/Yaha.K

is found in file (file location)

I only knew about this virus because of AVG - but what of the thousands of others who trust Hotmail's virus checking system? No doubt they will probably have viruses on their system.

On a releated matter, I can't find the file - the pop up windows says it's in the Temp Internet Files folder in the COntent.IE5 folder, but there was no such folder (or any, for that matter) in the Temp Internet files. Anyone have an idea where it's stored?

DeltaJava wrote:
> Yeah. :)

...... Ooops!

Yeah. :)

Oh. Wait. Was that what you were on about? ... !

DeltaJava wrote:
> Yup. THe virus is probably fowarded from other email addresses - I
> might try emailling Mr. Grimwood to see if this person's an innocent
> mug, made up or just one of the dedicaated virus spreaders.

It could be one of those things where an email gets sent(with a virus in it) from a persons' address without the actual person knowing... you know what I'm talking about? I'm not very good at explaining stuff !! :-D
The kind of thing where the virus somehow attaches itself to the email.

I'm not too sure though, don't really like the whole virus thing ! =)

icedtears wrote:
> @ DeltaJava
>
> Do you mean, the person who sends them? If so, I got mine from 'Lesley
> Sharpe'...

Yup. THe virus is probably fowarded from other email addresses - I might try emailling Mr. Grimwood to see if this person's an innocent mug, made up or just one of the dedicaated virus spreaders.

Why not use that Spam Filter from Hotmail???

Works a treat for me :).

@ DeltaJava

Do you mean, the person who sends them? If so, I got mine from 'Lesley Sharpe'...

It's not adam grimwood, is it? He's supposedly delivered most of these virus emails.

God damn it!! Just checked my Hotmail, and found TWO more viruses from the same person!!
1st Subject: I am in Love
2nd Subject: Let's dance and forget pains.

Does anyone else have these same subject names??

:-(

Don't trust hotmail because it's run by thpse sleezbags at Microsoft