[at-l] OT - German Spam

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

German Spam!?  I haven't gotten any, have 
gotten/Janpanese/Chinese/Korean but only at work.  Been 
pretty spam free eat home except for some letters from 
Nigeria.  Can't wait for them to transfer the money to my 
checking accout :-)

Grey Owl

>Hey you intelligent hiking techies,
>
>I've sure been getting alot of German spam lately.
>
>I opened one or two emails, but clicked on nothing, just 
deleted them. 
>All subsequent ones deleted.
>Now, I'm getting "undeliverable mail" notices from servers, 
with the 
>German URL in the copies they forward.
>
>My questions:
>1) Is it now possible to get virii just from opening an email? 
I 
>thought I needed to open an attachment or click on a link, 
or download 
>something.
>
>2) My Norton scan showed nothing, but could in fact a very 
new virus 
>be out there and the "fix' not yet available?
>
>3) Why am I getting all these returned mail notices in 
regards the 
>German spam.
>
>Thank you for your technical wisdom,
>Shoester of the Rhine
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