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| Thread ID: 63857 | 2005-11-25 01:08:00 | Latest scam/virus | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 407337 | 2005-11-25 01:08:00 | A popular virus going around at the moment via email contains the subjects: "Your IP was logged" and "Visiting illegal websites". These emails contain a virus type executable and are becoming quite prolific. The From address is usually a USA government department. Don't open these emails! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 407338 | 2005-11-25 01:12:00 | Welcome to about 4 days ago. If you are getting these messages you have a problem. It means either your ISP isn't scanning your mail, their mail scanner isn't catching them, your own virus scanner is out of date, or you don't have AV protection installed. These shouldn't be getting anywhere near most people. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 407339 | 2005-11-25 01:34:00 | Welcome to about 4 days ago. If you are getting these messages you have a problem. It means either your ISP isn't scanning your mail, their mail scanner isn't catching them, your own virus scanner is out of date, or you don't have AV protection installed. These shouldn't be getting anywhere near most people.Nah no problem here... my mail comes via my own (rented) mail server, so my ISP doesn't filter my messages. And my AV doesn't get a look in because I view all messages prior to download via Mailwasher (which although I know it annoys you, I bounce). But anyway where the problem was most noticeable to me was from my missus' .govt.nz email account, which although having received these various emails, stripped the attachments. Re "welcome to about 4 days ago" it wasn't for the benefit of the likes of you who working for an ISP is totally in the know about these things, but for the benefit of Internet newbies who browse this site. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 407340 | 2005-11-25 01:43:00 | It's been in the mass media/tv/newspapers for days. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 407341 | 2005-11-25 02:38:00 | Thank you, Greg, for the warning. In spite of what ninja says, that was news to me. I do keep up with "the mass media," but nobody can read/see/hear everything - well, not if they want a life. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 407342 | 2005-11-25 03:41:00 | Why the necessity to tell everyone all the time. These things are as common as dirt. We're all grownups and can cope with them on our own. | pctek (84) | ||
| 407343 | 2005-11-25 04:19:00 | Why the necessity to tell everyone all the time. These things are as common as dirt. ...and can cope with them on our own.You sure? How many PC's have you had to disinfect in your line of work? None? | Greg (193) | ||
| 407344 | 2005-11-25 04:20:00 | It's been in the mass media/tv/newspapers for days.Some of us don't read/view mass media all the time. ( I just got Sky TV so when I'm not Internetting it I watch the new Food channel) :p | Greg (193) | ||
| 407345 | 2005-11-25 04:39:00 | Some of us don't read/view mass media all the time. ( I just got Sky TV so when I'm not Internetting it I watch the new Food channel) :p Also been covered on the Internet too :D Something called Google News ... for example. Sigh, people still open attachments from strange people though... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 407346 | 2005-11-25 20:18:00 | Seems perfectly reasonable to me. To give warnings like this. Watch out for megago.com a search engine/portal too. Changes Hotmail to Hotmaul. Sneaky. | mark c (247) | ||
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