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OT-Virus loose on RCW?

Hi All, I received an E-mail yesterday from what appears to be an Italian source. I don't read Italian, but my Spanish is minimal and I could tell enough similarities to determine it apparently was a virus warning. Since I get several E-mails daily intercepted by my McAfee virus protection software that are supposedly alerts about Microsoft updates, I don't open anything I don't recognize. This message had no attachments, and I was curious about how it was addressed, so I looked at the address bar, and found my correct E-mail address along with several names I recognized from this NG as well as some that I didn't know, but had some woodworking/turning name in the address. Among the names I recognized: Ken Bullock, Ruth Niles, Peter Fagg, "puketarget", Ken Grunke, Rusty Myers, and mhwoodturning.

Either someone on the NG has a virus, or someone has taken down a lot of our addresses. It would probably be a good idea for everyone to scan their hard drives for any viruses. If you don't have any installed, you can go to the Symantec website and get a scan done by their software. BTW, the origin was snipped-for-privacy@elite.it.

Good luck, Ken Moon

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Ken Moon
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This one has been going around for about a month -- I'm surprised that you haven't seen it before. I suspect that I've received something like

1000 of them. It is likely that there was an attachment but it was stripped off by an ISP -- several of them do it. Is it possible that the message has a note to that effect?

Symantic costs money.

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has avg version 6 which is free and does a good job.

Bill

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Bill Rubenstein

Bill, I've gotten a lot of these from US sources. This was the first that I'd gotten from a foreign location, and the first where I recognized a lot of the addressees.

Also, unless Symantec has just started charging, they will do a scan of your system free. I had my old system scanned just a few couple of months ago. The only problem is the length of time it takes if you're on a dial up modem.

Ken

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Ken Moon

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Forte Agent

Ken, I'd say there was a 99.9% chance that it was the latter by mining this bbs.

Actually, it would be a good idea for everyone to install, and keep updated on a daily basis, virus software that scans incoming and outgoing emails. MacAfee or Norton. When it comes to viruses, I don't want software this is "OK", I want software that is Great.

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Dan Bollinger

Actually, it is nearly impossible to tell the actual source of the messages. The ones you received from US sources may have been sent via an open relay in someone's Windows machine. Many are actually coming from people's dsl addresses. The header information is forged. This mess was created by Microsoft's lack of concern for the security of its customers, from their attempts to use the internet as the best marketing tool ever invented, poor software design and their greed. Also, as is usual, these sorts think that they are the smartest people in the world and everybody else is stupid. So they leave known security holes for themselves to exploit and figure that others will not be able to find them.

Bill

Bill

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Bill Rubenstein

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Bill Rubenstein

Ken, Yes I too received this email but as usual I delete anything that I do not understand or has any reference to a virus in the subject line apart from senders whom I know, although that gets more difficult as time passes. I did not think it was worth mentioning but obviously it could be a little dodgy, thanks on behalf of everyone!

Peter Charles Fagg.

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Peter Charles Fagg

But tell us, Bill, what do you REALLY think about MicroSloth?

;^)

Chuck, Wondering Whatever Happened to OS2

-- Chuck *#:^) chaz3913(AT)yahoo(DOT)com Anti-spam sig: please remove "NO SPAM" from e-mail address to reply. <

September 11, 2001 - Never Forget

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Chuck

Another place to go to help protect your computer is

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. Steve Gibson has a few programs there that will test your firewall protection, disable Windows Dcom (which no one but hackers use), and a few other helpful software tools. He also links to a couple of programs that you can get for free that will check for data miners (Ad-Aware) and a personal firewall program (ZoneAlarm) that I have found effective.

Brian

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brian green

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