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145960 2003-05-21 04:38:00 Ladybug,

When did you last update your Norton anti-virus definitions?

Oxie
Oxie (1318)
145961 2003-05-21 04:42:00 Hi Oxie 18 May 03 Ladybug (3129)
145962 2003-05-22 11:48:00 Everyone but Everyone should be using Mailwasher - it's free (writer asks for donation) and NZ made. Garibaldi (3838)
145963 2003-05-22 12:45:00 omg, within 3 hours, i got that email 3 times :( ("Screensaver", "Re : My Details", "Re : My Application"), i feel sorry for the less informed :/,

grtz sal.
tga
sal (67)
145964 2003-05-22 20:24:00 Just started arriving in my mail as well but the subject line is

UpGrade Approved (with a reference number in brackets)

Using Mailwasher though so they are deleted while still on the mail server and allows me a look at the headers as well so the ISP can be advsied.
Gordon. (2217)
145965 2003-05-23 03:06:00 Hi guys and gals - just one wee question - which ISP's are you guys using and has anyone had it through a ".co.nz" connection? Nomad1 (3546)
145966 2003-05-23 03:21:00 hi there, i got this little thing 8-10 times in a space of 24 hours.

AVG didnt spot it but a trial program called the Cleaner and its off sider did TC monitor. my AVG is as update as you can get. but it still didnt find it.

and it got deleted but somehow it ended up in my system any way, so did the symatec option and it found 5 of the greeblies.

all clean now and i use mailwasher, i have xtra as my ISP and i also use yahoo mail and i also got it in all my inboxes so just bad luck i guess.

we live and we learn.

beetle
beetle (243)
145967 2003-05-23 04:24:00 Didn't it give you warm fuzzy feelings to get email from Microsoft? Addressed to you, personally. :D Isn't it likely that they would give you something free?

I wonder if this stuff has been relayed through Microsoft's servers. :D They have had troubles through their own system administrators not applying security patches.
Graham L (2)
145968 2003-05-23 04:43:00 The only infected messages I have had from NZ have come from Paradise and I flicked them the message headers, whether they got onto it or not, I have had no more from Paradise or any other kiwi isp but I am getting a few from else where.

In regards to AVG, several people I know who have AVG and all upto date as well, AVG did not appear to detect the infections even with email scanning enabled and in one case of AVG. Those people I know of that have Nortons AV on the other hand don't appear to have had any problems.
Gordon. (2217)
145969 2003-05-24 01:18:00 > Didn't it give you warm fuzzy feelings to get email
> from Microsoft? Addressed to you, personally.
> :D Isn't it likely that they would give you
> something free?

Microsoft sent me a free wireless intelli-mouse a while back
Baldy (26)
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