Is anyone else on this board getting crazy amounts of.....

[dickster]

i had two of the "this is my new game for you to try......." something like that, over the past couple of weeks.

if i don't know where it came from it gets deleted.

[radcon]

I have been getting a couple of these a day over the past couple weeks. Actually, I received dozens of similar emails about six months ago and then it finally fizzled out. Looks like someone is trying to circulate the same crap again. They usually have a .exe or .zip attachment which is a virus that supposedly attacks your email distribution lists if you use Microsoft Outlook and will send the virus to people on your distribution list and include a phony sender's address and bogus subject line. I forget what the actual virus will do to your computer though. I think it messes with the Kernel32 or something in your configuration and screws up Windows. If you happen to get several of these emails and have an email provider like AOL that allows you to view the details of the email routing, you will see that the sender's address listed on the email header is bogus and that the true address listed in the routing details will probably be the same for most of the emails. Anyways, it's bad. DON'T OPEN IT!!!!

[Siena911]

Outlook is automat-able i.e. scripts can be written to send emails to everyone in your address book. A way around this is to add an entry to your address book called something like

£$!Nobody

and do not give it an email address, when the worm/script tries to send to everyone in your address book, outlook complains that not all recipients had email addresses, and waits for you to sort it out, thereby stopping the spread.

A simple trick, it works, but then the writers of these scripts can get more clever and only choose half of your address book etc etc it keeps going round and round.

Hope this helps some of you

Cheers Jakes

[paulhagedorn]

For more info on this virus that is running around as well as a tool to scan your computer for it, go to
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html

This is what Norton points to everytime I get the virus in my email box. I am using Netscape's mail utility and get these things. I don't have an address book, so hopefully it can't be spread to others from my computer. They always get caught, and always get deleted.

[emcon5]

More fun viruses with Kazaa

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/25945.html

Tom

[island911]

FWIW; My "island911@..." accnt (one of 6 of my accnt's) rcvd a bunch of viruses recently. I removed my "email-me" link off my signature here, just to be safe . . er; and to slow down any internet mining programs.

A few "eyebrow raising" observations on what came my way:

The virus was never previewed (attachments were never opened, either -of course) and yet it spread.

The virus does not look just to the address book, but rather to addresses contained in any emails in your inbox.

Norton has been run (from boot disks) and yet says "no viruses found"

For those wondering, how do I know a virus was in that machine; I rcvd a string of "undeliverable Mail" messages, bounced back from closed accnt's . . .most of which were not in my address book.

As others have said, outlook allows scripting to happen in Outlook. Nice "feature" eh?
Don't conclude, as I did, that Microsoft would have this "feature" fixed in their latest release 6. That program cause even more problems for me (after a fresh install)

Microsoft, Norton -What a PITA, time wasting game they've created!
So Bob, Linux you say? May be just right for an internet appliance. Are you going to be at the Rainforest Roundup?

[ferrari2porsche]

more than likely they are from websites you visit. when you go in to a website, they may be getting your email address and spamming you with junk.

[emcon5]

Jack forwarded 3 of them to me, one was Spam for jobs at Radio Shack, one was a corrupt image file, and one was a small Javascript program (don't know what it does, don't want to find out). None of them checked out as viruses, with the current version of Mcafee.

A lot of Spam now has subject lines that don't indicate they are advertisements, for example, the Radio Shack mail had a subject of "Let's be friends"

Tom

[john70t]

There was an announcment about a virus developed in a experimental lab (not on the net yet) that can be contained within a picture image. No executables required.

From my own experience, Nortons either has a major bug in their renewal software, a major viral attack or both. Customer service and user friendliness they have not.

[Bill Douglas]

Hi Noah. I think they are floating about in CSI.com. What makes me think this is I sent you guys an email which Tom said you guys didn't get, then a few weeks later I got a reply or autoreply (I can't remember which). But from the day after I sent it I got a load of emails with .exe attachments which went on for a few weeks. Bill, SCWDP guy.

[Wayne 962]

This BBS shields your emails from everyone else. The only person who truly knows all your emails is me, and I certainly have not been sharing!

-Wayne

[island911]

Wayne@pelicanparts (origin)
Wayne@ . .. . (return path - sufix left out for this post)

This is what was in the last viral email I rcvd. (Klez BTW)
Not to say Wayne's cmptr (or Wayne himself ) sent me a virus, but this thing is tricky, and many may not even know they have it.
FWIW:
Norton has a utility to remove this virus. I encourage everyone to consider their need for virus protection and fixes.
I have found that a Norton scan for this virus will find nothing. If however you run Nortons "fixklez" (from a floppy) it will find and remove this nasty little package.