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Title: Strange email!
Post by: restore2003 on March 07, 2004, 01:25:52 AM

Now this surely is strange, just look at the message below:

Im so sick and tired of this crap! I get a couple
of these mails every day!  :-x

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Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: odin on March 07, 2004, 01:30:02 AM

What's so weird about it? Just a virus using your address as 'from' field apparently. I've received angry emails from people sometimes, complaining I was sending them virusses(virii?) :-) (Note: I use Yam).

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: restore2003 on March 07, 2004, 01:32:04 AM

But...but....but....argh!  :-x

Its getting worse day after day, how will this end? New viruses popping up everyday, wish i had an Amiga again :-D

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: odin on March 07, 2004, 01:39:54 AM

:-D, but indeed junkmail/virusses seems to be getting worse. My ISP's mailfilter used to filter nearly 100% of the junk out. Now it's more like 98% I think, the 2 percent that does get through al seems be the same virus or something. Oh well, still funny to see it trying to infect an Amiga :-).

-edit-
Dump a few hard returns in that email paste, it messes up the pagewidth of a.org :-).
-edit2-
Uhm...suggestions&feedback, what's your suggestion? ;-)

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: restore2003 on March 07, 2004, 01:45:25 AM

I just worry about the day when even sneakier methods of infecting your computer with virus comes.... mail attachments is just the beginning.....

 :-o

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: restore2003 on March 07, 2004, 01:46:32 AM

Doh! Sorry! Wrong forum category  :-D

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: odin on March 07, 2004, 01:53:30 AM

Hm, I've always thought bootblock virusses were pretty sneaky too :-).

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: restore2003 on March 07, 2004, 01:56:07 AM

Yeah, but now that pc`s motherboards have bootblock virus checking as default, thats not likely....


Btw. this smile should be removed:

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

Reminds me too much of Doommaster  :-P

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: that_punk_guy on March 07, 2004, 02:02:44 PM

Quote

odin wrote:
Hm, I've always thought bootblock virusses were pretty sneaky too :-).

Yeah, I munged up half my disk collection with one such virus when I was an Amiga newbie. The previous owner had write-enabled every floppy there was, and of course when a disk fails to boot properly, your first instinct is reset and try another...

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: Framiga on March 07, 2004, 02:20:08 PM

Quote

by restore2003 on 2004/3/7 2:45:25

I just worry about the day when even sneakier methods of infecting your computer with virus comes.... mail attachments is just the beginning.....

. . . and another way to receive virus, is from a your archive also Restore . . . . and i don't care if innocuous
 or not.

The most of the viruses that i'm receiving on my mail address, are from people that knows me (forums users here and there).

I've done a complaint to the Italian Postal Police and i'll post HERE and on all the other Amiga related sites, the result of the investigation.

Ciao

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: mikeymike on March 07, 2004, 02:28:21 PM

Who, on just seeing the name of this thread thought "virus!"? :-)

Title: Re: Strange email!
Post by: that_punk_guy on March 07, 2004, 02:31:21 PM

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mikeymike wrote:
Who, on just seeing the name of this thread thought "virus!"? :-)

I thought, "Nigeria."