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Virus warning - FYI

Posted: 11/14/02 11:06am Message 1 of 4
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Just an FYI -

I just received a message from a70vette@asbank.com which contained an attachment with a virus. Not sure where the guy got my email address, but his email indicated he knew I had a 70 vette and this site is one of two sites I know where this knowledge is obtained. Please relocate this message if appropriate or let me know if this is a dupe and I'll delete it.

Norton Antivirus immediately detected the virus...


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Virus warning - FYI

Posted: 11/14/02 1:26pm Message 2 of 4
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I got a message from a friend that "thinks" he sent me a virus. But I can't find it if it's here...will run Norton completely again this morning just in case. Anyone know what nbsp means? He says it was attached to an email he got recently.


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Virus warning - FYI

Posted: 11/14/02 5:01pm Message 3 of 4
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|QUOTE|Z-man said: Just an FYI -

I just received a message from a70vette@asbank.com which contained an attachment with a virus. Not sure where the guy got my email address, but his email indicated he knew I had a 70 vette and this site is one of two sites I know where this knowledge is obtained. Please relocate this message if appropriate or let me know if this is a dupe and I'll delete it.

Norton Antivirus immediately detected the virus...|/QUOTE|

Could have gotten your email from that Worm virus that has been going around.


Virus warning - FYI

Posted: 11/21/02 11:13am Message 4 of 4
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|QUOTE|VetteVixen said: ...Anyone know what nbsp means?...|/QUOTE|

"nbsp;" proceded by an ampersand "&" is an HTML escape code, meaning "blank space".

It is used where you need to force a space to appear on a web page. Imagine in the line below that the _ are spaces:

This_____is_____a_____line___with____spaces.

After this line was typed in, and it is displayed on a web page, all those extra spaces get removed, so it would look like this:

This is a line with spaces.

So, if you want to force the spaces, you have to specify the blank space escape character. nbsp; (proceded with &) (I can't actually type it in correct, or it will get converted.) 
So you'd type it in like this:
Thisnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;isnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;anbsp;nbsp;nbsp;linenbsp;nbsp;nbsp;withnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;spaces.
(remember, I left out the & in front of each nbsp;)

So, that was probably a lot more than you wanted to know about HTML, but once I started typing, it just kinda came out. Sorry!

Also, I get TONS of viral emails every week! It's REALLY annoying!


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