Anyway, it was all caps, horrible english, and was obviously a scam (Oh, I have xx money to invest in ur country!) etc.
Quickly deleted it, then ran that wonderful online virus checker.
It found said file in title, and deleted it..
Am I safe? 
Got a POP-UP VIRUS!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I think it's just a spyware file anyway.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Delphi Aegis said:
I got a strange email in my personal box today. Which is strange in and of itself, since I havent given out the addy to just anyone.
Right then and there, I would have deleted it.
If I get an e-mail from someone I don't know, it dies right away. I don't bother to open them and see what it was, I just trash it.
I find that's the best way to do things.
Time to go into options and disable it! Rar.
It's the same virus
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Nobody really understood why RPC wrote:
Linux + E-Mail client == luv.
Pine/Telnet > all
And pop-ups aren't virii
No matter what your stupid anti-virus flips out at
k thx
Literally, it just means a program that replicates itself, I think. It doesn't even have to do harm to your computer.
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This one time, at Delphi Aegis camp:
Time to go into options and disable it! Rar.
Even better
Go into Security, set the "Restricted sites zone" option
Voila,
no more javascript
no more executables
no more downloads
no more klez
no more pop-ups
no more virii clones
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Mr. Wilams had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Literally, it just means a program that replicates itself, I think. It doesn't even have to do harm to your computer.
That's a worm
Dictionary.com:
Virus: A program that searches out other programs and "infects" them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses
Last I checked, pop-ups don't infect your files.
QED
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I got a strange email in my personal box today. Which is strange in and of itself, since I havent given out the addy to just anyone.Anyway, it was all caps, horrible english, and was obviously a scam (Oh, I have xx money to invest in ur country!) etc.
Quickly deleted it, then ran that wonderful online virus checker.
It found said file in title, and deleted it..
Am I safe?
Since you deleted the file and such, you should be fine. If anything funny occurs, make sure to do another virus check. If not, just do one tomorrow or something, just to be sure your computer's running spiffy and all.
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Mr. Wilams stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Er, notice the virus "makes copies of itself"...
Yes
Worms are a subset of virii. But they usually replicate themselves, or use other applications and leaks in them (e.g Nimda and IIS), but don't modify the application itself to replicate.
Neither of which a pop-up does
Yes it is possible to get infected from a pop-up. It's possible to get infected by looking at a web page. And it all sucks ass.
Kinda nice to have an online virus scanner, though.
[edit]V != F [/edit] [ 06-18-2002: Message edited by: Delphi Aegis ]
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Tier the Genius had this to say about (_|_):
Yes
Worms are a subset of virii. But they usually replicate themselves, or use other applications and leaks in them (e.g Nimda and IIS), but don't modify the application itself to replicate.Neither of which a pop-up does
Did I say they did?
