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.scr is a very common extension used for sending viruses. On Windoz, .scr
is a screen saver, and is executable.
Duane Morin wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Recently I've been getting a couple of messages a day from typical spam
> addresses ("Someone", etc..) that are always just a single attachment that
> looks like a .scr file. Of course they go right in the trash. But is
> anybody else getting this? it seems to be a recent thing. And the spam
> addresses are always from microsoft.com, which I assume is forged.
>
> Duane
>
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