The following information is from Howstuffworks at
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question339.htm
"A Trojan horse, aptly named after the seemingly harmless tool of destruction in
Homer's Iliad, secretly carries often-damaging software in a "plain wrapper." The
plain wrapper is normally an e-mail file attachment from someone you may or may not
know. The file attachment name itself can also be very misleading. When you run the
attachment, it can do all sorts of things, from erasing files to changing your
desktop. It then sends itself along to other people in your address book so that it
can propagate itself."
So the messages that you are receiving that appear to be from LM_NET are probably
Trojan horses. Since most listservs don't allow attachments, receiving an
attachment from a listserv address is a good clue that the message probably isn't
what it seems to be, and the best thing then is to delete.
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Denise A. Garofalo
Library Director
Astor Home for Children
6339 Mill Street
PO Box 5005
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
vox 845 871 1013
fax 845 876 2020
dgarofal@astorservices.org
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Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/06
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