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Thread ID: 45823	2004-06-04 05:53:00	Sasser again!	BernieL (1913)	Press F1

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241611	2004-06-04 05:53:00	I am getting lots of messages with a general name@my ISP such as mail@ and adress(sic)@. My ISP says it is coming from someone with the Sasser virus. No, it's not me as I have checked with Norton's several times over the last few weeks. Is my ISP being lazy? Is there something they should/could be doing about it? They have said that someone I know has got the virus and doesn't know it. Is there something I can do about it as there are many people who have my e-mail address.	BernieL (1913)
241612	2004-06-04 06:05:00	>Is there something I can do about it as there are many people who have my e-mail address. That will be your problem. Someone who has your email address in their contact list and it has been harvested from that by a virus. Not much you can do about that at this stage. Just ignore any messages from Mail Server Daemons that report you have sent out a virus. The main thing is to make sure your machine is well protected updated and squeaky clean of any virus/worm. You can sent out a email to friends who may not be very computer savvy and ask them to check for any viruses. Send links/instructions on how to do this and an online scanner if they don't have any antivirus (also send them a link for the free AVG antivirus program). The best thing to do is to protect your email address as much as possible. Use the BCC function of email clients and don't partake in the practice of bulk Fwd: messages. If you have friends who like to do this, give them a disposible email addy such as hotmail to use instead.	Jen C (20)
241613	2004-06-04 06:11:00	Nothing you can do unfortunately. These viruses grab one adress at random from an infected PC, and use it as a "From:" address. So the true sender is masked. Neither do they use the normal email program, they have their own hidden one. Technically it would be possible to locate the sender by using an IP address search, but that would probably require a police search warrant I suspect, to delve in that depth on another operators system and force them to divulge who was using the address. The only secure way to protect against this is to change your email address, and never use or give out the new one. Defeats the purpose though. This is a reason people should never FW: or send to a long list of recipients on any email. Its asking for trouble. Always use BCC: when sending to a group, to protect everyones email address.	godfather (25)
241614	2004-06-04 06:12:00	Must type faster. Must type faster.	godfather (25)
241615	2004-06-04 06:20:00	> Must type faster. Must type faster. Jen 1 : godfather 0 :D	Jen C (20)
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