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From: Bob Pace <>
Subject: [PACE-L] My Message
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:17:59 -0500


Gordon,
I did send you a message on Sunday, 9/15. I forwarded of a message I
received from , the subject was "Background".
The next line was "X-Apparently-From: ". It had an
attachment " border.bat."
I do not open attachments unless I know the sender and the content.
Since it was not clear the message and attachment were from you I
forwarded the message and attachment to you with the following note:
"Gordon,
Did you try to send this to me?
I am a little leery of attachments from strange sources, and I don't
normally communicate with ameritrade.
If you did I will open it.
Thanks.
Bob"
I thought that was a safe way to confirm whether the message was from
you before I opened the attachment. If it was not from you I was
sure my message would alert you not to open the attachment.
The attachment apparently changed when I forwarded it to you from
"border.bat" to "backgroun.mime." With the benefit of hind-sight I
should have just sent a clean message asking about the message,
instead of forwarding it.

Gordon, I am so sorry that you lost so many files because of this.
You said in your message to PACE-L that you simply downloaded the
message and did not open the attachment, and that resulted in your
loss. That appears to be a new virus procedure. I thought one had
to open the attachment to get exposed.

I use a Mac and have discovered that many viruses are set up for PC's
with windows and do not affect the Mac.

Again, I am so sorry about your loss. Hopefully all of us on the
PACE-L will learn from this. Your rule of no attachments to PACE-L
messages is a good one.

Bob
--
Pace e Bene

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