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There are an escalating number of computer viruses that have been circulating around the Internet, some of which may appear at first glance to originate from a Support, Staff, Management address of Keller Williams, or even your own ISP.

Don't be tricked into opening the attachment regardless of what the email says - these are being created by a new variant of the 'W32.Beagle" virus and will infect both your system, as well as send infected copies of itself to everyone in your address book including your clients.

Specifically, stear clear of attachments with the extensions: .exe, .bat, .scr, .cmd or .pif.

Please note that KWRI scans and disinfects all incoming emails. There is no way to be completely sure all potentially harmful attachments are removed from your email. Please exercise extreme caution when opening anything remotely suspicious as it has the potential to harm both yourself and others.  As always, education and awareness is the surest method of prevention.

If you believe you may have opened one of these attached viruses, a freely available removal tool can be obtained at

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle@mm.removal.tool.html