OT: I received a virus with a fake greeting card probably connected with this group

Hello All,

I usually don't report this sort of thing (in fact I usually lurk these days), but the supposed sender of the greeting card is someone I don't know, but know that some of you do, so this may be a clue to one of you that your machine is infected or being used.

Possibly that person has both of us as contacts.

I am Rosemary Peeler in Melbourne, Australia.

The supposed sender was Stefania.

The card was supposedly from 123greetings.com.

My virus checker moved its attachment to the virus vault.

Hope this helps somebody.

Rosemary

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Rosemary Peeler
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I get these all the time in my Google email (gmail), and they automatically send to my spam folder - which is why I use THAT email when filling out forms/surveys online. Funny thing is, I hadn't had my gmail account for 24 hours, and had already accumulated over 200 emails in my spam folder, and I hadn't used it for anything yet, nor let anyone know I had it, only signed up for it and let it set.... makes one wonder, don't it (or as that song goes "things that make you go hmmmm")?

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Magic Mood Jeep

I always feel so left out when viruses are going around -- everyone else complains about getting 10,000 copies of them, and I don't get a single one.

Even when we're able to trace it to someone who has all of us in her address book, so we're sure that it was sent to me.

AOL's virus-blocker is that good that it doesn't even show up in my Spam folder. Yet another reason I'm not giving up AOL.

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Karen C in California

AOLs spam blocker is abhorrent. I know that to my cost when I email my bridge club - it rejects the messages as spam, and yet the other two ISPs in town are perfectly able to detect this is not spam, so you better consider there is maybe mail you are not getting because AOL decided to dump it.

I also remember a scandal with AOL that they had everything set up so that if it detected an F word and less, it was rejected. I don't want an ISP censor working on my emails.

I run a regular virus protection plan and do not receive spam or virii, like Jeep I use a throw away address for signing up for anything online.

Reply to
lucretia borgia

I haven't had that problem. Perhaps because all the people who send me mass e-mailings are in my address book and are therefore recognized as not spam.

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Karen C in California

Have to watch that line of thinking Karen, I have had to re-install my full windows vista system twice in the last 3 months since buying the brand new system. The first was for bad drivers, while the last was for virus troubles.

One of the most common thing is that your own address will pass as valid since you use it to send things, and because of that you will pass it.

Myself and a friend both had emails from our own address received. Stupid thing was I accidently opened mine before realizing that I had not sent it, which was enough. Thing that really got me was that my virus program missed it also. My friend noticed hers and asked, she didn't get hit. It was only after finding problems and running the virus protector in full mode that it was found, even thou it is set to check every message and to scan the computer every day at a set time.

And some will say that maybe only a computer tech would have seen it. Sorry, wrong! I was studying for my B.Sc. in software engineering, do have a computer design diploma, and was a repair tech with a larger electronic company before giving it up for medical reasons. I really enjoyed having the re-install and also the full manual system check for hidden files/folders, which took the full week to complete.

Completing the program installs are still not finished, since I was replacing the computer with this year's newer model. So I still have 2 Terabytes of programs to do, good thing it did not happen on last year's model. I would have had more time consumed instead of just being able to use to windows transfer program to move most of the rest.

PS. I know that I will either get a stupid reply or some such from an enlightened reader. Just keep it to yourself! I have a commercial system checker [not a toy system checker] and the ones that come with windows vista itself running always. And they missed it, not me.

J. Howard Trenouth

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J. Howard Trenouth

Please watch your credits - I did not say that as quoted.

If you had a good virus protector it would not happen. I had one of those Hallmark ones the other day, purportedly sent by a friend but no name, didn't matter anyway as PC_Cillin had already stripped the attachment off, so I couldn't have opened it if I had wanted to.

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lucretia borgia

Suppose to be a good virus program, I picked mine after a computer mag listed results from testing various programs and which missed least. Mine does what you state above, the whole email removed with message "email been deleted".

Anyways..........

Point was that just because in address book does not mean can't get spammed. There was no attachments on what got me using my own email address.

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J. Howard Trenouth

I originally was replying to the subject, that is what got my attention.

I was kinda agreeing with the subject line because of fun i had after I changed newsgroup name and address since I had originally been using the default newsreader setting.

I had posted up to the first week, then after I added more to the first items in my thread and did the name change, I had the email from Myself to Myself using the email address I use for the newsgroup [not same as normal email]. And since your own email address is normally in the safe list, it got pass everything.

My setting for spam/virus is to be caught at the isp level, then norton gets anything the isp misses, and a final thing is the mail program puts anything not on my safe list are either deleted right away or asks what to do but will block opening it till I say safe and if i don't say, it deletes in 3 days.

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J. Howard Trenouth

There's your problem.

Reply to
lucretia borgia

They are labeled as spam by aol mainly.

My address cannot be hijacked, would take someone pretty smart to do it, it may have gone unnoticed but I do not use an address in ngs which would take a spammer anywhere.

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lucretia borgia

Works fine for me, thanks.

Elizabeth

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epc123

We use the freeware version of AVG Antivirus. It can be downloaded and you can set it to update daily; or in our case, overnight. If I shut my laptop off at night I update in the morning. So far, so good. It protects everything from email to web browsing. Just the free version is what works and I think I can say without hesitation that my husband knows his stuff!

Victoria

Reply to
Jangchub

It's bloat ware now and not nearly as good as it once was.

Reply to
lucretia borgia

I used that but when I set up the new laptop I could only get 8 and that is bloated too and it was slowing the whole system. I couldn't think what it was until my local nerd asked me if that's what I had. Very disappointing, so I took it off and voila, back up to speed. I now use Avast which is excellent (and free) I figured I was not going to have a fast computer then be slowed by virus ware. So don't update to 8, keep 7.

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lucretia borgia

Do you have a laptop? I do notice I am constantly losing my wireless connection and now I'm wondering if AVG is the culprit. I'm going to take a look at Avast. Thanks.

Victoria

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Jangchub

Yes, I have a router so I can use the laptop elsewhere outside this room. It also has a wifi card so if I am away from here I can generally filch a signal one way or the other.

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lucretia borgia

Yeah, me too with the wifi card, but at home I lose the connection often. This is the second replacement Dell has had to give to me. And this model had to have the monitor replaced and last week the hard drive went kerplooey. I have a 17 inch screen which I will never do again. Weighs a ton so when I travel it's like carrying a barbell.

I can go to the library and use their wifi which is free and safer than coffee houses. I recently found out Starbuck's in the airports charge ten dollars to use their wifi! What nerve.

I think the next computer I will buy will either be a Toshiba or Sony. Fortunately, when I bought this thing I also bought the three year no questions asked full replacement and when it was about to expire I bought another year which is good till June next year. I would have been SOoL otherwise. Now this monitor screen has a black spot which, of course, my eye goes to automatically! It's always something.

BTW, I'm glad your adoptee kitty likes you finally. I have been begging my mother to stop adopting things, especially her three parrots, no more please. Guess who will have those three parrots. I don't think Mikabird is going to like it very much.

Have a glass of the box of wine you drink (!) and toast to my mother living healthy till she's 100. Victoria

Reply to
Jangchub

I used to have a Dell Inspiron but gave that to a grandson and bought a Dell XPS this year, adding quite a bit more speed etc and I was advised to change the monitor too to a higher resolution. The XPS weighs a fraction of the Inspiron. I am very pleased with it, no problems so far.

There are quite a few places that charge, so I just don't use them. Usually in the car park you can get a signal from somewhere I find.

Good for her - is she close yet ?

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lucretia borgia

My mommie is only 74 and works full time. Lot's of life in that GOW. She tells her colleagues I'm 27 LOL. Fortunately, women in my family on both Russian and Italian sides live long lives with little illness other than the old age stuff everyone gets.

Her birds are big honks. Her Amazon is so loud I can hear him from here! He's 35. The Sun Conure is smaller, but also loud and he's 22. Her tiel is also 20 so he is running out the clock. They don't live as long as the bigger parrots.

Victoria

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Jangchub

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