viruses, and amiga.org visitors

[mikeymike]

The email address I use solely for amiga.org is getting a hell of a lot of incoming viruses, like 5 an hour, and while I realise that the from addresses are generally spoofed, most of them look like email addresses of people who visit amiga.org.

If you are running Windows, and particularly if you use MS applications for Internet access, or have a penchant for opening all email attachments without appropriate safety measures, UPDATE YOUR VIRUS SCANNER AND PLEASE CHECK YOUR MACHINE FOR VIRUSES!

[Vincent]

I've been getting a lot of emails telling me that some of my emails couldn't be delivered because they were infected with the sobig.f worm.

They're only going to my hotmail one that I use for the forums, and I got 11 yesterday in the space of 2 hours :-o

[mikeymike]

I'm getting about 5 an hour on average.

[KennyR]

I haven't seen any evidence of current viruses whatsoever - no infected mail, no port access attempts, nothing. I've never had a virus in my mail. In fact, I don't even get spam!

[evilcrvs]

for this and other things i use linux and amiga only


windoze sux  :madashell:

[itix]

I get about 12 virus mails per hour. And only because someone was stupid enough to open virus attachment.

Argh.

How can anyone be THAT stupid??? Stupid users should be banned from the internet.

[mepmepmep]

Checked for viruses and found nothing but I have a haunting feeling that someone somehow hacked my email adr. and uses it to send loads of crap around like ads for porno and ####. I wont give my address up without a fight tho.. I'll just sit and tire them out;)

[Paul_Gadd]

How can anyone be THAT stupid???

There are that stupid and for some reason they always blame the OS instead of the dumb user behind the monitor.

Hello i am Mr virus in this email, please click the "infect my machine" attachment, the stupid user would still do it then bitch and moan about windows and microsoft when clearly the stupid user is to blame.

[itix]

This virus finds email addresses from addressbook and uses them. I've got viruses from "Ikir" and "Bill Hoggett" for example. Faked From: field of course. And someone is getting virus emails with my email address in From: field too :-/

[Vincent]

I've just recieved another 4 undelivered mail to my hotmail because of the sobig.f worm.

I also got this one:

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with an attatchment called Winmail.dat.  I wonder if I should open this attatchment :-P

[itix]

Just got 2 another virus emails... Looks like my virys emails are coming from Portugal. Hmm... now I got third virus email...

Aaaaarrrrggghhh...

[mikeymike]

winmail.dat is a specific MS Exchange thing IIRC.

Also, I think the latest virus doing the rounds is down to a few factors:

1> Unpatched, or not properly configured Windows (DCOM vuln) installations

2> Unpatched MS mail clients

3> Idiot users opening email attachments without engaging brain first.

[amigamad]

I have two virus scanners running realtime . avg the free version is scanning my outlook express for virus. You can get avg free version here http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

some of the features are

 

 You can download free Updates to get the latest program virus databases.
Download, install and use AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition and get:
AVG Resident Protection
AVG Email Scanner
AVG On-Demand Scanner
Basic Scheduled Tests
Free Virus Database Updates
Automatic Update feature
Easy-To-Use Interface
Automatic Healing of infected files
AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
Basic user Interface only
Disabled Advanced Scheduling of Tests
Disabled Creating of Your Own Tests
No Technical Support

I have had six viruses at one of my yahoo email addresses i dont open anything i dont know.you can scan your attachments on yahoo,s site fo viruses.just dont try avast antivirus it reports files as viruses that are not and kept crashing my system. :-)

avg picked one of my files up as a trojan because it was called someting zip but was an excutable file woul not let me open it even though it was not a virus.

[SilvrDrgn]

Paul_Gadd wrote:
There are that stupid and for some reason they always blame the OS instead of the dumb user behind the monitor.

Hello i am Mr virus in this email, please click the "infect my machine" attachment, the stupid user would still do it then bitch and moan about windows and microsoft when clearly the stupid user is to blame.

Uuummm.... keep in mind that the blame for massive virii proliferations on the Win-DOHS platform can be put in three places - dumb users, virus writers AND Microsoft.  Remember, there are variations of virii on Win-DOHS that don't even have to be opened by the user for them to infect the machine.  In such case, the dumb user doesn't even enter into the picture usually.  You can thank M$ for those "features" that make such a thing possible.

[whabang]

Strange... I haven't got a single virus mail for months.