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| Thread ID: 61681 | 2005-09-13 04:16:00 | Handling potential Virus | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 388134 | 2005-09-13 06:48:00 | Or foward it to a friend? (where's the little devil smilie when I need it?). ]:} It must be not beyond the wit of man to devise a "safe viewer" for dealing with dubious enclosures. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 388135 | 2005-09-13 06:55:00 | I keep getting really annoying emails, they have no subject, no actual message and no sender, meaning I can't bounce them with mailwasher... :( | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 388136 | 2005-09-13 08:38:00 | Just do what has been suggested by someone.. save it to your desktop as a zipped file, then once its on your desktop, right click it and select 'scan with'. If you arent willing to do that then pm me and I will give you my email addy. I don't care if I get a virus (I will even open it in Windows :D) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 388137 | 2005-09-13 19:36:00 | Ok guys, I scanned the zipped attachment with Avg and got nothing, I then transferred it to a floppy and rescanned it and got nothing, I then asked WinZip to open it to the floppy and all hell broke loose. :waughh: There was a beaut scrap after which AVG announced that it had dealt to “I-Worm/Bogle.ef” :D Interestingly, I put “I-Worm/Bogle.ef” into Google and got nothing?? So, I just wonder if this is a new one doing the rounds??? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 388138 | 2005-09-13 20:15:00 | Ok guys, I scanned the zipped attachment with Avg and got nothing, I then transferred it to a floppy and rescanned it and got nothing, these two processes were nothing but the exact same process undertaken in two different places......scanning a file on a floppy and scanning the same file on the pc is not any different except in location.......you shoulda emailed it to yourself to test out yahoo/hotmail/gmail scanners .............anyway you sure that's bOgle not bAgle ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 388139 | 2005-09-13 22:02:00 | Yep, I realise both scans were the same in different locations. I just wanted to double check AVG couldn’t see inside the Zipped file and didn’t recognise it. It did once the unzipping process started! :D You’re dead right, I can’t read my own writing. The worm was I-Worm/Bagle.ep :blush: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 388140 | 2005-09-13 22:09:00 | I suggest you open it and infect your comp. Oh, Thats exactly what you did do? Champion effort, good to see the work done by virus-writers isn't all wasted. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 388141 | 2005-09-13 22:10:00 | oh well perhaps they like learning ?..... ;-) | drcspy (146) | ||
| 388142 | 2005-09-13 22:16:00 | And I would like to give my opinion on a few things..... If they look suspect then you can bet your last bottle of "stay hard" pills that they are. Trusting any anti-virus filter by the likes Hotmail, Yahoo or Xtra is a bad move, the Virus writers are still one step ahead of them all (at least the good ones are). Common sense is the best defense, Backed up by Nod32, Or backed up with AVG if your tight with your wad and consider yourself capable of spotting something AVG has missed (fat chance) |
Metla (12) | ||
| 388143 | 2005-09-14 02:13:00 | What nonsense Metla . I hate to disappoint you but no Computer got infected . :( AVG did exactly what its installed to do . :D Do I detect rampant paranoia here? :confused: Going back to my original post, if I may, I was fielding ideas on how to best handle suspicious files . To suggest that you just delete everything that you’re not sure of the contents of is nothing short of ridiculous . Unfortunately, many E-Mails I receive come from individuals working for companies . I have no idea the name of the individual appointed to handle my business . Frankly, I’m not into dumping $1000’s of dollars worth of business because I don’t personally know the author of a E-Mail . ;) |
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