Re: WTF WAS THAT???

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From: Tom Breton
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:57

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"Paul Foster" <pfo...@nildram.co.uk> writes:

> Anyone else see about 26 messages of something, quite large?

Yup.  Apparently a self-extracting archive.  I always play it safe and
assume any executable posted on Usenet is a virus.

> I'm glad I have broadband - otherwise my 'Net connection would have been
> very bust for a few hours!

No problems here, because I use gnus agent, but others may have been
affected.

> Not very clever to post all that on this NG - maybe a binaries NG would be
> more appropriate?!?!?!!

Definitely, or a url.

-- 
Tom Breton at panix.com, username tehom.  http://www.panix.com/~tehom

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