[vox-tech] spam current events

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:51, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

>
> the gif image itself is mostly white with a few colored "threads" here and
> there.  i certainly don't see any text, so i'm not quite sure what their
> purpose is.  perhaps it's some kind of virus?
>
> anyone else seeing these things?  i'm getting them a few times a day now.
>

I'm getting these every day.  I'm getting them on my e-mail account I use on 
Linux, and not on my e-mail business account which I use with Windows 98.  So 
as a result I'm not getting a report from Norton on whether the .gif is a 
virus.

I was thinking of forwarding one of these to my business e-mail address to see 
if Norton would detect a virus on it.  But then it occurred to me that it 
might be illegal to "knowingly" transmit a virus over the net.  So maybe the 
next time I get one of these, I'll save it to a floppy, reboot, and let 
Norton examine the floppy.  

Bob