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OT ~ AAGGHHH!!! An old customer has the SoBig virus...

And their stupid system, unattended and now apparently on a cable modem, is sending out thousands of emails using MY business email as the one of the forged senders!!! I have been fighting for two days with tons of bounced messages and automated messages from other ISPs telling me I sent an email with a virus in it - of course these oh-so-very-helpful messages include a copy of my 'original' message which STILL HAS THE VIRUS ATTACHED!!! God, how stupid can they be??

This person's system is also sending out the virus using other email addys so I'm getting tons of OTHER infected mail too. I'm tearing my hair out here! And yes, the first thing I did was run a check of my own system to make sure I wasn't infected and when that turned up negative, I still downloaded and ran the removal program from Symantec - which didn't find anything either.

I've traced the sending ISP to a GTE address in Texas and have sent off several emails requesting that they look into it, but I've not been able to track down this old customer at all. Their old email address no longer works, they're not at the same Florida address anymore - couldn't find anyone with that last name that would fit this person. They only ever bought ONE thing on eBay and that was from me - over TWO YEARS AGO!!! - so I can't request their contact information from eBay.

One last scream and then I'll go away: AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Thank you for letting me vent...

Mj

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Beadbimbo" :

]What bugs me is that ]I'm sure it's going out with my e-mail address too, from someone's address ]book.

exactly. makes me crazy. and it's generally someone using Outlook Express that is causing all the problem.

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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:26:16 -0400, vj wrote (in message ):

Me three. I have a Mac, and do not use Microsoft products, so I should be immune to the worm.

Hahahahaha.

I was getting between 40-50 copies a day, then it tapered down a bit and is ramping up again to about 100 copies a day. My poor friend who runs a couple of mailing lists on her server was getting a copy of the worm every 45 seconds for a couple of days last week. She had to take server offline for almost a day.

Kathy N-V

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Me three. I have a Mac, and do not use Microsoft products, so I should be ]immune to the worm. ] ]Hahahahaha.

don't laugh too hard. the FIRST virus was written for the MAC. by a game programmer.

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vj

I love the graphics on Mac, but the hubby works for Dell. So gotta put money back to the market shares. LOL

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Carol in SLC

Tried googling for Linux alternatives of M$ stuff? You might find something, you might not, but it doesn't hurt to try :-)

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melinda

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from melinda :

]Tried googling for Linux alternatives of M$ stuff? ]You might find something, you might not, but it doesn't hurt to try :-)

i keep thinking about it. but i just don't have enough TIME to learn another system and new software right now.

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's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

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So does DH, he's had a crash problem with it for the last week or so, at first he thought it was cause by a virus, now he thinks one of his template files got corrupted during a copy across to another computer so he could re-install Windoze (long overdue, apparently needs doing every 6 months to prevent major problems). If Open Office had complete word art capabilities, then he'd swap over now, although he still needs to run M$ for his quarterly GST tax stuff. :-(

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from melinda :

]If Open Office had ]complete word art capabilities, then he'd swap over now

**sigh** there are a bunch of new updates for all the M$ stuff. when i opened WORD this afternoon, it made me go through the "agree" crap again. i'd swear M$ builds crashes into the damn stuff on purpose. bleah!

but my "boss" REQUIRES W$ and all it's crap.

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