Thanks Bruce, A couple of other newsgroup/forums I use with a different
identity have disclosure messages that say they block your email from being
seen by other users, although they will forward an email to me and if I
reply the sender will see my email address. I had no idea this newsgroup was
a little different. Thanks for your advice, I've followed it, and also
deleted the message with attachments, cuz I have no idea who it's from and
its just not worth taking the chance.

Best Regards, Dan

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Besides this, look at your original post below. In Tools | Accounts | News
| Properties | General, change your assress to something like
lid and remove the Reply To address.

Reply-To: "Dan"
From: "Dan"
Subject: Is my email address visible to readers of this newsroup?
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:58:26 -0400
Lines: 21
Organization: Home
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2905
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
Message-ID:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress
NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.0.120
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress:313881
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~


"Dan" wrote in message
...
Can anyone answer the question in the subject of this post. The reason I
wonder is that my email address (identity) has only been in use for the
last week, and has only been used for this OE newsgroup.

I received an email from someone named "Arduini" subject: Francis

I do not know this person and it got through my McAfee Spamkiller and
also my ISP spam filter (which is pretty good because I have never
received spam in any of my identities, ever.

This email contains 2 attachments... "nataniel_zip (61.6KB)" and
"bpmnxhjfps.gif(1.07KB)"

The message body says: "Archive password:" and then there is a 5 digit
number.

Has anyone else in here received this email? Could this be someone trying
to spread a virus? (I have no idea if scanning the attachment would
detect a virus etc. in a zip file, if it is a zip file.)