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| Thread ID: 28750 | 2002-12-30 04:01:00 | Cybercafe Spam with virus | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 109907 | 2002-12-30 20:41:00 | The virus will be coming from somebody that has your e-mail address on their system. Are you saying that nobody has your e-mail address? Anyone you have ever sent an e-mail to will be a suspect. Realise that these viruses grab ANY e-mail address from the infected system address book or received e-mails to use as the header (dummy "from" address) and send themselves to EVERY e-mail address on the system. It will be someone you know, that is infected. The virus also disables antivirus software on the infected machine usually. Just remember its unlikely that the "from" address is really where they are "from" at all. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 109908 | 2002-12-30 20:51:00 | It used to be simple - receive a virus and reply to sender that they have a virus and it's about time they ran/updated an anti-virus program. Now some of them redirect through an alternative address. Sometimes it's possible to identify who actually has the virus, sometimes it isn't. If, at a quick glance, you are certain who sent it - tell them they have a virus, if you are uncertain - delete it and move on. A while back there was a virus that picked up random files from a computer and forwarded it. One "appeared" to come from an Asian address but by content I knew exactly who had the virus - the international student dept at the local school. Others with the same virus were less easy to identify - an email about a months old motorcycle trip to my husband springs to mind. It could have been one of a number of people. Just keep the anti-virus programs up-to-date and don't forward them yourself. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 109909 | 2002-12-30 21:32:00 | Hi Chris, Go to this Symantec page, to do a system scan. security.symantec.com If you are infected it will let you download a tool to clean the nasties. There are also links on the page on how to trace a virus, but as the others have said, it will probably be impossible to trace. BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 109910 | 2002-12-30 21:48:00 | Hi guys..I've decided on my action... am going to do a total update of antivirus..even thou i do this every day...just check liveupdate everynight...so yeah.. and will email everyone i have on my addressbook and tell them 2 update antivirus and do a scan... And will email the people who i got the virus from and tell them... and i might..email the ISP where they are coming from and tell them...just as a friendly warning that someone using their ISP is wandering around with a virus... Mm I just did a trace on the email host address... and this is what i got.. inetnum: 210.55.100.0 - 210.55.107.255 netname: WEBINTERNET-NZ descr: Web InterNet descr: Auckland country: NZ admin-c: DG44-AP tech-c: AJ18-AP notify: nic@netgate.net.nz mnt-by: NZTELECOM status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE source: APNIC changed: ks61@netgate.net.nz 20020918 Does that mean anything? |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 109911 | 2002-12-30 22:03:00 | Well that should keep you entertained for a few hours. Is it raining in your part of the island or have you nothing better to do? The simple fact is that viruses happen. If everyone kept their virus definitions up-to-date then there would be less of them but new ones will still sneak through. The best thing you can do is keep the anti-virus definitions up-to-date, don't open suspect attachments, pass on a warning when you are 100% certain of the sender and ignore and delete the rest. There is so much information in the world these days that people are selective as to what they take in. Virus paranoia only affects people who have been struck by viruses. Until it happens they won't do it. (A bit like my daughter not seeing the need to cut a spare car key. Yesterday her keys ended up in a glovebox 100km away. Much stress later I think she sees the point in it now). |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 109912 | 2002-12-30 22:28:00 | Chris, what is needed is a bit of detective work on your part . Firstly, can you make a list of all people likely to have your e-mail address in their address book? Then make some educated guesses as to which of those people could also have the addresses in the "from" field on the virus e-mails you receive . I have successfully identified the culprit this way in the past . As to telling your friends to update the anti-virus, the action of these viruses is to sneakily disable the virus scanner while letting people think its up to date and working, so they may update to no effect at all . In these cases an on-line scan is effective though . Again I stress its highly unlikely that the e-mails are coming from who they say they are, so notifying those people will be annoyance, not advice? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 109913 | 2002-12-30 23:20:00 | the "from" feild in the virus emails are all from cybersurf.co.nz and i tried that as a website and it took me to tauranga cybersurf...a internet cybercafe...and i dont think any of my friends would have their cybersurf.co.nz at the end of their email address... have emailed all the people i have in my address book, businesses...and friends..and told them about the email and what happens and yeah to update antivirus.. |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
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