There seems to be some confusion about the preceding post as evidenced by the comments to same. I am going to try to clear up that confusion:
Normally, when I am working in town, I drive my personal vehicle to the company lot and retreave my company vehicle. However, when I am working out of town, Jerry takes me to pick up my company truck the night before I am to depart. This way my car is safe and sound in the garage. When I get home on Thursday night, I can return my truck to the lot and have Jerry pick me up or I can return it myself on friday morning and load the bicyle in the back and ride the bike home. I like to do the latter, because it is easier to unload all my personal stuff from the truck vs transferring it all to Jerry's truck. Also, I have the added benefit of completing a 5 mile bike ride.
Am I the only person in the family getting bogus emails from family members that include downloadable files? I am certain that these files includes viruses. I learned that the hard way when I downloaded a file that looked to be sent by Patrick. When I could not open it, I called Pat and he informed me he had not sent me any downloadable files. So, now I have the Klez Virus on my computer. I get emails from family (today's included email from Kathleen, Daniel and Theresa). I checked the details of the email (a feature offered by AOL) and both Danny's and Kathleen's had a return path of Felicia's email address. In the past when I have checked the details the return path sometimes is Felicia, Tim or John Linger. I wish that some computer savvy person would investigate this problem and find the culprit.
Stepan helped me today install the Norton software on my computer that I am hoping will rid my computer of that pesky pest. I will report later on the success of tonights install. I am on my way out of town in the am so I will post something new on Thursday or Friday.
Posted by Rita at August 26, 2002 09:27 PMUnfortunately, it's still not clear to me how you did housework when you weren't at home.
And no, you are definitely not the only person getting bogus e-mails. I had two today, one from Leah's address and one from Meredith's. I just delete them; I never see any attachments, though, not that I would run them if I did.
Posted by: Elizabeth at August 26, 2002 11:40 PMI was at home. I work a 4-day work week. I am off every Friday.
Posted by: Rita at August 27, 2002 07:02 PMPlease,please - teach me how to do housework when I'm away from home. That would be wonderful.
Posted by: Cynthia at August 28, 2002 07:16 AMThe bogus emails were all from fkarl@houston.rr.com, or something like that. You have to look at the whole header to see the return path. The From: field is being spoofed to look like the email is from someone else.
The good news is that Tim has reported to me that he installed a virus cleaner and got rid of the problem. If everyone else is running a decent virus program, we should have no more problems.
Posted by: Patrick at September 1, 2002 07:48 PM