Attention!!! Mass Viruses and MS Emails came from this newsgroup.

[Winnie]

I used and posted my own email address to reply one of
the discussion topics I had yesterday. Immediately I
received many many virus warnings and huge number of
emails from microsoft regarding all sorts of things which
were not related to me. I don't find a relavent place to
contact but post my problems here. Hope someone could
help to fix and stop the problem to affect many others
who are in the same newsgroup.

 

[Kevin]

Winnie,

As I hope you have guessed, all those e-mails were not
real. Even the ones from Microsoft. Microsoft will not
send you e-mail like that. Anything you get with an
attachment will be a virus!!! Do not download or open
them!! In the future, use something like
(e-mail address removed). Anyone who want's to
legitimately respond to your email will know to remove the
nospam. The e-mail you got was automatically generated by
spammers, a particularly low form of low-life who serve no
real function to society!

If you use the e-mail address as suggested, the automatic
spammer software will be sending e-mail to a ficticious
address and will harm nobody.

ANother suggestion would be to get a free e-mail account
at Yahoo or hotmail and use that address here. If you do
both you will have a double layer of protection.

Good luck!

Kevin