[MacPerl] Border Alert

["Scott" <scott@moriah.com>]

This message brought to you by Moriah Mountain Publishing
Publishers of the Border to Border B&B Directory

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE
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99% of all virus warnings are hoaxes -- this one isn't.

This morning a large company on the internet was sent an email virus and
passed it along to us. The unsuspecting employee in their company opened the
attached file and it automatically emailed everyone in their contacts file a
copy of the virus. A message sent directly behind the first by the employee
saved the day as they notified the rest of us not to open the file.

NOTE: We have not passed the virus along to you. However, if you receive an
email message with an attachment called "Pretty Park.exe" be sure you don't
open the attachment.

Specific informaiton on the virus can be found here.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html

Safe Computing advice from the makers of Norton Antivirus:
This worm, and other trojan-horse type programs, demonstrate the need to
practice safe computing. You should not launch any executable-file
attachment (EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an untrusted
email or newsgroup source. These files should always be scanned by Norton
AntiVirus, using the latest virus definitions.

System Administrators:
This virus has the ability to comprimise your security systems on your
network and take action without the users intervention (ie. sending email as
it can do this alone every 30 minutes).


Welcome to the new millennium folks :-)


Scott Crumpton, Publisher                   Moriah Mountain Publishing
mailto:scott@moriah.com                         http://www.moriah.com/

"With God, All Things Are Possible. Without God, Nothing Is Possible."


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