[Maths-Education] URGENT - virus alert

[John Earle]

Peter Gates wrote:

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> This evening on my home machine I received several messages which seem to
> have carried with it an infected executable file called NAVIDADE.EXE.
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> The actual message seems to have been originally one from Paola Valero
> about an information leaflet for the third Mathematics education and
> Society Conference. However the message actually came from several other
> people including Nuria Gorgorio and others - all apparently from the maths
> ed world.

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Thanks for the information.

The only time in recent years that I have received a message with a virus attached was one
where the attachment originated from someone in Maths Educ in Portugal.  Is this
co-incidence or is there a local problem there?

John Earle

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