RE: Email Virus / Worm alert
 

This is probably old news to most of you, but here goes anyway:

If you have a Pelican BBS email account, and receive an email from admin@pelicanbbs.com (or any of the other domain names, like 944fanatic.com, bimmerfan.com...etc) Please DO NOT OPEN THE ZIP FILE! It is a virus/worm that will propegate to all your email addresses in your account.

Your email will not expire, your account will not be suspended, as the email from "admin" suggests.

Be sure to delete the email out of the 'trash folder' as well.

Note: this applies to all other types of emails, not just Pelican Parts emails.

This virus started making the rounds on Friday, August 1st.

For more information, just check any anti-virus website like McAfree or Norton.

Regards,
-Zoltan, Pelican Parts Moderator.

Just as a follow-up, I hope everyone here knows that if you get an email from eBay or Amazon or some other e-business you recognize, stating that your account information has expired or some other excuse to get you to click a link and enter your credit card, social security, and other info, DO NOT DO IT! It is a fraud, period. If you have any doubt, contact the purported sender (no, not via the suspect email) or simply pay attention to the URL that the email wants to send you to - it won't be the appropriate domain (e.g. "www.ebay.com"). I've been getting a lot of these lately.

Honestly, this spam crap has gotten so bad that I just delete 99% of my email without even looking beyind the subject line. For all I know, my long-lost friend, the blonde I met in a bar last night, or my business colleague with critical information are wondering why I'm ignoring them, but life's tough. I've had the same email address since 1995, when spam wasn't an issue and you posted your email address openly on Usenet and so forth, and now I'm reluctantly thinking I need to abandon it.

as usual, the virus/worm does not affect Mac users.

Another reason I've asked Santa for a G5 . . .

beware of ANY email from "admin"...it seems to be the latest scam, according to my ISP & McAfee...

Yup, "as usual"....writing a virus to attack Macs would be like beating up the class dweeb in third grade....what's the point??? ;)

Randy (a proud PC user) :D