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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Qi4gQ2hlcm5pY2s=?= on February 1, 2008, 10:29 am
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It's just that even with the volume of spam I receive, I've never seen
anything like this. I was wondering if there was a new outbreak in progress.
(And if this is an old virus, I'm really concerned that Yahoo!'s scan missed
it. Oh well, paranoia is my best friend.)
"RJK" wrote:
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=powerpoint+email+attachment+security+threat&meta=
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> :-)
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> > This is not really my field. I think I'm fairly careful about such
> > threats
> > (keep my virus protection up to date, be suspicious of spam) but this
> > seemed
> > unusual even by my standards.
> >
> > I received an email with a Gmail return address on my Yahoo! account. The
> > message was virtually empty but contained a large (bizarrely large by spam
> > standards- 11+ Meg) PPT file. I did not recognize the sendee and
> > naturally
> > I deleted it.
> >
> > What I find unsettling is that Yahoo!s own virus scan claimed that this
> > attachment posed no threat.
> >
> > So I guess my question is: How common are Powerpoint-born viruses and is
> > there anything new going around?
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