OT: Tainted e-mails
Aug 23, 2003 | 1:41 pm
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OT: Tainted e-mails
I keep on getting tained e-mail by SoBig virus. They have been all caught by Norton antivirus and quarantined.
Are you still getting them?
Any suggestions? Or just keep deleting the quarantined e-mails
Are you still getting them?
Any suggestions? Or just keep deleting the quarantined e-mails
Aug 24, 2003 | 7:22 am
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The safest response is to use mailwasher - there's a free download. I check all my email on the server with it - the viruses and spam can be blocked or bounced before they get to your computer. You can see the content as well. After mailwasher checks and deletes the incoming stuff, only then do I check mail through the email program. This requires that email downloading not be done automatically but it's worth it. Mailwasher sets up a friends list and a blacklist. This is a reasonable defensive move.
Aug 24, 2003 | 10:40 am
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Airbus I recently started to use wwww.spampal.com and have found this program very helpful with regards to SPAM.
Viruses are still a pain - Norton seems to catch a couple a week and I just attribute that to life in the electronic highway. . . .
Viruses are still a pain - Norton seems to catch a couple a week and I just attribute that to life in the electronic highway. . . .
Sep 3, 2003 | 6:19 am
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Got a bunch of these last week, and a couple more in the past two days. At least I suspect these are them. Generally from people I don't know with odd titles and attachments. In some cases, these are actual emails received by colleagues months ago that then have been sent to me. Bizarre.
Sep 3, 2003 | 9:11 am
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I got over 20 of them yesterday afternoon all directed at my yahoo account. None since last night though.
My Norton anti-virus caught all of them as well
I hadn't received an virus in over 1.5 years and wondered if it was really necessary to renew it a few months back. Lets just say it was insurance well spent 
My Norton anti-virus caught all of them as well
I hadn't received an virus in over 1.5 years and wondered if it was really necessary to renew it a few months back. Lets just say it was insurance well spent
Sep 7, 2003 | 1:51 pm
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I've been getting similar ones on and off for the past few weeks; some days up to 50.
Rogers told me that the problem is fairly widespread (and likely as Parnel suggested - someone you know with an infected machine). I'm pretty sure they have done something at the ISP end to help as it seems to remedy for a few days and then resurface. They told me that the 'magic day' was Sept 10 when this virus turns itself off. Hopefully they are correct.
Good Luck.
NV
Rogers told me that the problem is fairly widespread (and likely as Parnel suggested - someone you know with an infected machine). I'm pretty sure they have done something at the ISP end to help as it seems to remedy for a few days and then resurface. They told me that the 'magic day' was Sept 10 when this virus turns itself off. Hopefully they are correct.
Good Luck.
NV