About that e-mail allegedly from Microsoft
 

Thanks Ken :)

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"KenCo" wrote in message
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Nedra wrote:

Ken,

Does the "infected person" include anyone who is getting the
emails now?
IOWs, should I refrain from answering any and
all personal emails?

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118


as long as you delete and dont click on the file
your safe, all of these viruses require you to
click on them.


infected means they "clicked" on the .exe program
and it self installed and mailed everyone in their
address book.


you will also notice a very slow internet as its emailing
every time you have a dialup conn. made, DSL may not notice
it as much.

all the antivirus websites have complete details about it.

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Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced ;)

About that e-mail allegedly from Microsoft
 

There is a freebie program called MAILWASHER. It does great things
with this problem. You set a list of "friendly" and it lets them in.
Then when you get mail you can look at the sender and subject and
choose DELETE BOUNCE BLACKLIST. If it one of the MS MAILS you
choose DELETE BOUNCE AND BLACKLIST. It will delete the mail, put the
sender's e-mail address in a BLACKLIST list and then send (bounce) the
mail back to the sender saying that YOUR e-mail add is no good and
that will possibly remove your address from further bad mail. IF it
doesn't then the next mail from them is automatically checked DELETE
BOUNCE as it has already been blacklisted. My mail dropped from 200
plus daily to maybe 5 or 6 now. Also Norton jumps up and grabs the
one with the malicious attachment.

dd

On 9 Oct 2003 07:55:12 -0500, "Lee Brouillet" wrote:

Ken, who's the "infected" person? I've run my (automatically) updated virus
program 3 times and still get the "updates" and notifications that mail I
supposedly sent is being returned. Nedra and I are in the same class: I have
to check the server to "clear" stuff several times a day, and that's the
pits because this is a "business" machine.

Lee

"KenCo" wrote in message
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Marion Margoshes wrote:
Pixi

It stopped because the hackers became tired or bored.


not even close as its a self replicating virus.

it only stops when the infected person cleans the virus.

the only way an ISP can stop it is to filter/delete
all emails between 140-160 kb as the sender and subject
changes ea. time.



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Linux (SuSE 8.2) user #329121

Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced ;)

About that e-mail allegedly from Microsoft
 

The "infected" person is not necessarily the person who allegedly sent you
the Email. The virus not only sends itself to everybody in the infected
person's address book, it also appends random names from that address book
as the "sender". That is why you get all the messages that "bounced" from
somebody else's mailbox.

"Lee Brouillet" wrote in message
...
Ken, who's the "infected" person? I've run my (automatically) updated
virus
program 3 times and still get the "updates" and notifications that mail I
supposedly sent is being returned. Nedra and I are in the same class: I
have
to check the server to "clear" stuff several times a day, and that's the
pits because this is a "business" machine.