viruses, and amiga.org visitors

[whabang]

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

[Doobrey]

Does anyone else here find it really annoying when you sit back and watch a computer do a full systems scan, the whole 30-45 mins job.. and then it finds nothing?
 Such an anti-climax, it almost feels like a waste of time!

[mikeymike]

@ Doobrey

You'd rather it find something? :-)

Blimey, 45 minutes... presumably that's an 'all files' scan rather than the usual suspects type scan?

One thing I liked about when I used to use Eudora (before moving on to Mozilla) was that it saved attachments to their proper filenames in their own directory.  This makes virus scanning very easy, and not having to fire up the email client in order to find a file someone sent you recently.

[bhoggett]

@mikeymike

Same here, and it's obvious that my address is being spoofed to send the virus to other people too.

My systems aren't infected, and all the incoming viruses are deleted on the server before they get anywhere near a client, but I'm still getting close to 100 a day for the past two to three days.
 :-(

[amigamad]

Im scanning my system now I only use outlook for amibench.i use yahoo mostly because i can get my mail from any computer. :-)

[dammy]

by bhoggett on 2003/8/28 12:18:09

Same here, and it's obvious that my address is being spoofed to send the virus to other people too.

Seems that I'm getting them from 213.22.229.113 and 213.22.229.163 so who ever it is, has sent email to squid so they must read Moo as well.  Alot of us who post on moo are having emails spoofed by sobig.

[Edit: I also added 213.22.229.163 and I'm virus email free so far;]

Dammy

For those running Windows machines, I would highly recommend SA Proxy.  It's a Spam Assassin program that kills about 90% of the spam I receive daily.

http://saproxy.bloomba.com/

[amigamad]

For those running Windows machines, I would highly recommend SA Proxy. It's a Spam Assassin program that kills about 90% of the spam I receive daily.

Looks good and its free maybe someone should download the source code and compile it for the next generation machines. :-)

[Madgun68]

I have yet to receive a single virus. Then again, it wouldn't do much good.. I haven't turned on the PC in a couple of months. :-)

[Housey]

I had to format and reinstall windows last night due to BIG infection from the Pinfi virus... I think I had it for awhile but as I stupidly never run a virus checker I didn't identify it until it was too late  :-(

I see some here saying that they run Linux or AmigaOS exclusively, to be more secure... as much as I loath M$, it seems to me if either had as many users they'd be just as vulnerable......... Amiga had a huge virus problem back in the day.  Do Macs get hit much?

[Rigger]

[color=FF0000]Does your virus protection work?[/color]

The following link is to a file that is not a virus but contains a string that should be identified as one by your virus protection software. Additionally you can test your email systems virus checking by emailing it to yourself. If your winbox acctually let's you download the file you've got problems. There are several test files available at http://www.eicar.org/download/ but this one is the hardest one for most virus programs to identify. A double zipped file.

Virus test string

[Rigger]

@Wayne

Spam Assassin is great. I run it myself on my personal email server. Maybe one or two spam messages make it through per MONTH.

[DaBest]

Hmmmm I havent got any yet. But then I checked my email on my Amiga SYS B4 it died but  now I use YAM with AMIGAFOREVER....I should not be getting viruses with that ....RIGHT :-o  :-o  :-o

mikeymike wrote:
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!

[dammy]

by Madgun68 on 2003/8/28 13:51:18

I have yet to receive a single virus. Then again, it wouldn't do much good.. I haven't turned on the PC in a couple of months.

Won't matter, once your on sobig's list, you'll get tons of virus email clogging up your hard drive.  I'm not in danger of getting infected since I run Linux, but I still have to go delete the crap until I found the email source and firewalled them off.

Dammy

[Mike_Amiga]

I have had zero virus threats and zero spam related to Amiga Org e-mail addresses. :-D

[amigamad]