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Re: A non-hysterical, non-bogus virus warning



On 14 Mar 2002 at 22:02, Harry Binswanger wrote:

> Fellow XyWriters
>
> I know most virus warnings are bogus, and don't we know enough not to click
> on random attachments, already?
[snippage]
> It contains an attachment that begins q216309. Apparently the extension can
> vary, because mine came as a .zl9 file, whatever that is.

The .zl9 probably means that you are running the ZoneAlarm firewall. It will
rename potentially dangerous attachments to have the .zl9 extension.
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