Virus/Spam from Kalmbach Address - Be careful!

[Anonymous]

I received the following message today:

"From: [e-mail]
Date: 22 May 11:01 (PDT)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Registration confirmation <ID:2521>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Your password was changed successfully.


++++ User-Service: http://www.kalmbach.com
++++ MailTo: [e-mail]

Attachments:

kalmbach-6637.DOC.bat (48 k) "


As can be seen, it is not addressed to me, and it had an attachment which is most likely a virus. Don't know where it came from, but I am certain it did not come from Kalmbach.

Be careful!

Bob Boudreau
Canada

[Allen Jenkins]

Yea, I know, I was downloading pics, off a gonzo MR webbsite, with a few lifelong photographer/modelers, and things began to slooooooooooow dooooooooown. One of the best model rrd's I've seen of the internet, downloaded pics to my pictures files, 500MB cache, when you figure in the trainsim objects, annnnywaaaaay, that's all in the past now, but it was fun collecting everything I didn't have time to look at(you know, collecting more). Had run live update, and was up to date with internet hazard, but there is one thing I didn't do. Nope' didn't make backup files! Soooooooo, gotta' go to Strategy First, and download that Auran TrainzSimulator UTC Demo, Signalcc,com for that Atlanta to Chattanooga Dispatcher Demo, Not to mention TrainMaster, hopefully the demo is still available. Really, I just remembered, all of these a available at Trains.com Forums! So the moral, make backup copies, don't worry about what happens to your files, save your time and consider what you download, because You might wake up in the morning, and your hard drive may not. But for the one missing System32\Config file I lost( and who knows, it may have went out in the waste basket, or deteriorated, eaten), however, a backup recovery file would have kept me from going to windowsXP and Symantec, to catch up to May22,2004@7:04PM. Glad to be back, aged a minute, wiser, home to Trains.