"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
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I am surrounded and they are coming through the wire.
Need immediate tactical air support!

email, that is.

I've been targeted, accurately, and I do believe that
they finally got me.

Something got through my filters a few weeks ago and took
my computer back to the stone age.

Rock = 0, Stick = 1
(Edit that, Bill Gates)

It was indeed a boot sector virus.
That "bnoxious: boot sector warning" saved my butt.
Or YOUR butt, since the thing got caught there before it
could go on an email rampage of it's own.

I got the system back up, clean, but my email address is now known
and the vandals have a real target. Me!

My email inbox on Prodigy is filling up in less than an
hour with Microsoft patch offerings. They all have the boot
sector virus attached.

I just solved the same problem. During the last week, I was getting 200-300
virus containing e-mails a day. There seemed to be 15-20 spurious
"sender's" for all of the messages. I used filters to ID and delete any
messages from those senders. The fix is working.

KB