BJ Insider VIRUS

[Michigan Dave]

This Message is for anybody that receives the weekly BJ Insider newsletter.

You may have received today a false e-mail that
appeared to be a virus from Blackjack Insider.
The subject may have been:

"Re: E-mail technical support message"

and the e-mail had a 'from' address of:
management@bjinsider.com
(or similar)

The e-mail contained attachments. It also
may have warned about an invalid or terminated
e-mail account, or resigned position, asking you
to open the attachments.

This e-mail ***WAS NOT** from Blackjack Insider.
It was a virus that falsified the 'from' address,
giving the appearance of being sent by and
from Blackjack Insider. It was not.

Some important things you should know:

1) DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS:
- This e-mail is a virus, using a common strategy
to spread. It reads the e-mail on an infected
system, and sends itself out using the 'from'
address of your e-mails. As such, the virus
could have come from any computer that
received the Blackjack Insider e-newsletter
at any time. This is called 'e-mail spoofing'.
Unfortunately, this gives the appearance that the
virus came from BJI.
- We NEVER send any attachments to our subscribers...
only our bi-monthly newsletter about blackjack and gambling.
- Ignore any further suspect e-mails and attachments,
regardless of who they are from.

2) NO BLACKJACK INSIDER MACHINE IS INFECTED:
- This mailing did not originate from any Blackjack Insider
computer, nor are any of our machines or servers
infected with this virus, or any other viruses.

3) OUR E-MAIL DATABASE WAS NOT COMPROMISED:
- Our e-mail subscriber list was ***NOT*** compromised
in any way. This is held on an independent and secure
server that was not infected. The virus spread from some
other remote computer unrelated to any of our systems.
Our e-mail subscriber list was NOT copied or stolen.

4) WHAT WE ARE DOING TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AGAIN:
- The e-mailing was caused when the virus e-mailed itself
from someone else's computer to the newsletter reply
address, 'spoofing' the from address randomly as well.
This accidentally caused it to be
mailed to the BJI subscriber list. This fault has
been corrected in our own setup, and this error cannot
occur again. Since virus e-mails can always 'masquerade'
as coming from any e-mail address, you should be guarded
against any e-mail, and NEVER OPEN ATTACHMENTS
UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT THE CONTENT IS, regardless
of who it is from.

5) WHAT IF YOU OPENED THE ATTACHMENTS:
- If you opened the attached zip files and ran any
of the contents, you should immediately run a current and
updated anti-virus program.

We understand our subscribers concerns about this
accidental e-mailing from an outside source,
and strive to take every effort to protect all subscriber
information.

Thanks,

Blackjack Insider
www.BJInsider.com