Post #72768 by floratina on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 11:05 PM

Ooh, good eye. I don't know what is in it. I was surprised to get a friggin' ZIP file in my webtv, so I wonder what is in that thing. Say what you want about webtv, (one of the things you might say is, "Buy a computer, already!") but it isn't a computer. We don't get viruses. The fact that I don't ever receive these kinds of files could be attributed to MSN's IT watchdogs, so again, it is interesting that it got through. If I tried to open an honest to G*d .zip or .exe, I don't know if the box would know what to do with it.

We had a virus last year that somehow forwarded a virus, though. In that case, my email was as good as any. Baxdog had to break the news to me that I sent him something unclean. The problem was hardly confined to that one incident as i got this virus carrier email (webtv scrubbed the actual file out on my side) from TCers for like, a month and a half. I guess "it" got ahold on some address book or other. There was nothing toxic left in the emails I received. I just kept deleting them until they died out.

As for Paypal, I had been alerted that there were phony emails sent on their "behalf" so I didn't fall for it. I got one asking me to reaffirm my vitals an I forwarded it to Paypal and they confirmed that the email was from the depths of evil.

It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. As for the random nature of the selection of the addressees, my email was pretty bizarre (surprise) and the fact that Hanford got one addressed to a .tikicentral.com addressee is pretty interesting. Who thinks of this stuff?

[ Edited by: floratina on 2004-01-26 23:16 ]