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To: HairBall who started this subject	7/26/2001 8:43:33 AM
From: HairBall	Read Replies (2) of 99985

OT WARNING: I received an email from someone using the name Tim Ord (Ord Oracle) yesterday. It had an attachment. Well I don't correspond with Tim, but he does post on the Crystal Ball from time to time. I was reluctant to open the attachment, but the email was from a normal ISP “Local” email address. I replied to the email asking it Tim sent it to me and then forwarded the emailed to Tim Ord via his website email address requesting if he sent it to me. Normally if I do not know the person emailing me an attachment or I get a unexpected email with an attachment I DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. The text of the email was asking for my advice. The attachment was labeled Bio something. I must admit asking for my advice was my hot button and I broke down and opened the attachment. It was a Microsoft Word document containing the bio from Tim Ord’s web site’s home page. This made no sense. I suspected then I’d been had. This morning when I powered up my trading desk computers, I notice something talking to the Internet via my DSL router. It managed to migrate to my main trading computer via my network. I don’t know if it was trying to extract information from my computer. (All my important information is on zip disk and not loaded into the zip drive while connected to the Internet, even though my router has a firewall.) My suspicion is that it may be a denial of service attack on Tim Ord’s web site using the email address list from the Crystal Ball. But it may just be an virus that is now trying to use my email address database to replicate. Anyway, I’ll be down until I get it removed. Of course I don’t know for sure if this is where the virus came from or exactly what it is doing, but if you get an email from Tim Ord asking for your advice, DON’T OPEN THE ATTACHEMENT. Or, if you get an email from me with an attachment DON’T OPEN THE ATTACHMENT it was not me. Regards, LG

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