"/Tx2" <noreplies.usenet@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.20f5f63696decc87989729@News.Individual.NE T...
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:59:19 +0100 Far Canal
> from the village of me@privacy.net
> felt we might be interested in the following...
>
>
>> Do you open any old **** that arrives via IM or email?
>
> You'd be surprised how many people do...
>
> Admittedly not a file in my case, but I got caught out when a friend I
> was chatting to on MSN sent me a link - she hadn't of course, her
> machine was infected with 'something' which had done so on her behalf.
>
> Without thinking, i clicked the link which then tried to plant something
> on my machine, but fortunately my NOD32 jumped in and saved the day.
>
> I've now disabled active links in MSN chat windows, but as a normally
> very vigilant user I was more quite shocked as to how easy it is to
> infect a machine when you are momentarily off guard.
>


I would like to point out that if Far Canal had read my post properly then
you would have seen it was not me, but my wife that did it, and normally no
I would not.

AVG scanned the file and said it was ok, so she opened what she thought was
something her friend had sent her. It was not her fault as Tx2 said, it can
be quite easily done when you are caught off guard.

Also Beauregard T Shagnasty, I am sorry for posting a question on here as
well as another newsgroup. I did not cross post so I have not broken the law
by asking on here as well as somewhere else. I did not know it was a crime
to ask on more than one newsgroup and I will write out 50 times

I will never ask on more than one relevant newsgroup for a solution to a
problem I have, considering I was not sure what to do and thought it would
be OK to ask in relevant newsgroups if anyone could help me.

I think that should do it.

So considering you have not helped me in any way, if it was that much of a
problem to you then why bother posting a reply to my question with nothing
more than a sarcastic response.

The reason I asked on different newsgroups is because I was not sure which
one to ask in, so I asked in both.