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Rick Blythin
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: VIrus warning, genuine! |
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Rick Blythin
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: Re: VIrus warning, genuine! |
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No ISP I know would send out mail with attachments for so-called 'security'
fixes. Unless you actually contact tech support and they send you a patch.
Any security fixes are posted as downloads. I'd never open up any attachment
even from my ISP unless I requested it or scanned it and verified it was
virus free. I haven't had a virus in 4 years and counting well my temp
browser folders have had virus attempts from surfing the web but active
monitoring caught them. When in doubt never open attachments and just delete
mails.
BTW it's usually not good practice to cross-post to a lot of newsgroups. A
lot of people see it as 'trolling'.
Rick
"Kenny" <elvis@gracelands.com> wrote in message
news:bh3qo6$t7ucj$1@ID-126822.news.uni-berlin.de...
| Quote: | I wasn't so stupid as to open it. Although Norton said it was clean I was
suspicious as well as curious,did some research on it and discovered it
was
a new virus. That is why I posted the warning to a number of groups as
well
as to friends advising them not to open it and to update their anti-virus
program.
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Kenny
"Tom MacIntyre" <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:huhajvkmldp1ilegj3fcm1o95msi74svs0@4ax.com...
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:49:05 +0100, "Scott Hunter"
scott@planetterragen.com> wrote:
Who'd be stupid enough to open attachments from Joe Blow anyway? I just
bounce the message and hit delete.
It wasn't from Joe Blow, it had the appearance of being from his ISP,
just as it was in my case. I also scanned the file for a virus when I
received it and found none, but I like to wait a week or so before I
believe that there is truly no virus, long enough for several
signature file updates.
Tom
"Kenny" <elvis@gracelands.com> wrote in message
news:bh18vg$u0v3n$1@ID-126822.news.uni-berlin.de...
Have been getting many e-mails this last week or so with the
following
text,
supposedly from
admin@lineone.net
and "your account" in the subject line.
I do have a LineOne account. There's an attachment named
"message.zip"(19KB) which contains what appears to be a blank HTML
page,
it
comes up clean in Norton scan and passes incoming mail scan. This is
a
recent virus, look here:
http://www.datafellows.fi/v-descs/mimail.shtml
Watch out for it and update your anti-virus, which I intend to do
right
now.
"Hello there,
I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
email address. This email address will be expiring.
Please read attachment for details.
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Best regards, Administrator
oskoaoaa"
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Kenny
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