Message-ID: <3739C06A.95545577@persocom.com.br> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:54:50 -0300 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: I AM SORRY (Microcredit in Portuguese) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Dear Friends, Sorry. As you have noticed, there was a virus attached on my latest message. This message that you have received as just a rectangle offering a file called "happy99.exe" to be open, was completely different from the message that I had then sent, which can be read here below.But as the virus was hidden in my computer (it came from a similar message that I - very stupidly - had open (and I did not perceive that the virus moved from the happy99.exe to my own machine), it substituted my original message (below) by itself - that same rectangle...
But the most interesting and dangerous detail - and that may help you be more safe than I was, is the fact that the virus comes as a message not from someone you don't know, you don't trust, but may comes from your best friend, or from you boss, because - since the system got the virus - who sends it doesn't perceive what he/she is actually doing... My infected message I have received from a very important and trustworthy micro finance NGO in Brazil.
So, beware of ANY ....exe file that comes to you, EVEN IF it comes from your best friend, your boss or from... me! (I am sorry if someone has open this virus from my previous message; if so, please contact me).
Joaquim Moura wrote:
> If you have interest on microcredit informative materials in Portuguese, please
> visit:
> http://www.partners-bsbdc.org/pmicrnew.htm (in Portuguese) or
> http://www.partners-bsbdc.org/micrnews.htm (in English).
> Thank you very much,
> Yours,
> Joaquim