Thanks Norman, Ijust got another similar email from the same person, deleted
it too.
I did as Bruce suggested and I only use this email address for the ms
newsgroups or for email testing purposes so I haven't given it to anyone
else. If I get another I have a few options for blocking it. Glad to have
your advice.

Regards, Dan

"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:25:00 -0400, Dan wrote:

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...

"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.)

I have not received the email you describe. However, for a long time I
have used a non-functional email address tied to my domain.

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

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

Those other "newsgroup/forums" are probably web based, not NNTP based.
All of the NNTP news groups that I have participated in reveal an email
address in the posting headers. These MSFT groups (msnews.microsoft.com)
seem to attract virus authors like no other groups I have participated
in. 99% of all the viral email to my accounts have been to email
addresses scraped from my msnews.microsoft.com posts.

If you can't create a broken email address on your own domain, as I did
(the FQDN, 'msnews.aosake.net' points to 127.0.0.1), you should use a
construct ending in '.invalid', as Bruce has suggested.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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