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Post by grinfish on Mar 18, 2004 19:19:45 GMT 1
Have received an email cleaned by my ISP of the Netsky virus, claiming to be from "jshrew@hotmail.com" . I doubt this was the true address of the sender, but perhaps someone who has that address in their contact book needs to scan their system! FREE online virus scan/cleaner: housecall.trendmicro.com/Cheers
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Mar 18, 2004 19:24:48 GMT 1
We have ahad a nightmare here at work today - the bagle virus attacked at 9am and it untill half an hour ago go to get it all back and working properly - this virus attacked 10mins before the auto update of the virus checker (snekey) and has nackered up a load of computers and programs What even more annoying is it means i have been of the net most of the day
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Post by faginy on Mar 18, 2004 19:26:03 GMT 1
Have received an email cleaned by my ISP of the Netsky virus, claiming to be from "jshrew@hotmail.com" . I doubt this was the true address of the sender, but perhaps someone who has that address in their contact book needs to scan their system! jshrew@hotmail.com is Jules_Shrews, prob best to PM her incase she doesn't see this
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Post by MRJPSHREW on Mar 18, 2004 19:34:17 GMT 1
I would'nt worry too much as long as it isnt opened and the supposed sender need'nt worry either. I have received stacks in the past 2/3 weeks and a large percentage are from people from here who have supposedly sent them.
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Post by grinfish on Mar 18, 2004 19:52:42 GMT 1
Can I suggest that to help reduce the load, that ALL the email addies in the members list are hidden?
Thing is, email addresses can be "harvested" off the net, programs sniff around pages and look for the "@" symbol etc, normally used to help spammers build up their databases, but just as useful for hackers, VXers etc.
Perhaps someone with the knowhow can enable the PM system to post to your email without it being displayed publicly? This is the way, for example, that FriendsReunited's system works.
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Post by MRJPSHREW on Mar 18, 2004 19:54:22 GMT 1
Very good idea Grinfish
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Post by grinfish on Mar 18, 2004 20:03:25 GMT 1
I'm here to serve ;D oh, and there's another free online virus and security checker at www.symantec.com too. And anyone who doesn't know about Bagle, watch out. It doesn't necessairly come as an attachment, it simply puts a link in the normal email body that self-activates. I'm guessing that means Outlook users are the most at risk as usual, as you can't refuse to receive "Rich HTML" email, only to send it. Boooo.
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Post by MRJPSHREW on Mar 18, 2004 20:09:16 GMT 1
Always use symantec and use the security check too Best to do regular daily updates whilst there's stacks of virus's
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Mar 18, 2004 21:49:25 GMT 1
This bagle thing happend to us today and the problem is that once someone in the company got it it killed everything and effected a load of others!!!
Whats the reason that these sort of events are occoring more and more now a days???
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