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Chrispy
A new virus has just been reported to be propergating around the net via Email. The Email body contains the text:-

"The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment"

DO NOT CLICK ON OR OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!!!!

Do not open this attachment, even if it comes from somebody in your address book, doing so will quickly infect your operating system.

Remember to update your Virus Scanner daily, in order to keep protected against new viruses.
YourBigEvent
Had my e.mail and update to NAV this morning
C.S
Thanx for the warning fear.gif
joe
Yes, thanks for the warning! excl.gif

I'll be on the look out! lol biggrin.gif
Dukesy
Thanks Chris.
tonyj
norton posted a download fix last night
philcol
Had about 40 of these type of emails coming through !!!!

cheers for the warning........
Dukesy
Here is another typical message body in these type of emails:

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.

files hidden in the email may be:

body.htm
body.zip
doc.doc
doc.zip
document.doc
document.zip
file.cmd
file.zip
message.txt
message.zip
readme.exe
reame.htm
readme.zip
test.scr
text.cmd
text.scr


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