Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software
Looks like phishing to me (bad grammar is key) Matt KD8DAO On 7/21/07, John Palmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My virus protection sends me the following message every to send an email. Do you know anything about this? *** PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION. *** Trend Micro PC-calling Internet Security has detected a message containing dangerous software. You will find the message in question attached to this notification in the form of a harmless text file. If you need to read the original message, please open only the text file, not the original. As a further precaution, do NOT save the original message as a message file (files with the .msg or .oft suffix at the end) to keep your computer safe from infection. Thank you John ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
RE: [Elecraft] dangerous software
If it's really happening in response to your sending each e-mail (try sending a message to yourself and see if it happens) it sounds like your computer already has a virus. If the misspelling (pc-calling instead of pc-cillin) is really how it appears in the message, the message itself is part of the problem too. As Fred said, don't open the attachments. IF the misspelling is yours and you're running Trend on the system, contact them. It sounds as if Trend on your system is catching an attempt by a virus on your system to pass the infected file onto others. If you are not running Trend on your system, contact whoever you got your anti-virus program from. It's slightly possible you're being bombarded by some server dumping those e-mails on you from outside your system, but if you send yourself a test message twice in quick order, it's very unlikely an external system would slip in the phishing message between them. If you continue to get the message in response to every send command, it's a good sign it's your system that is generating the messages and that you do have a virus. Ron AC7AC ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software
Fred (FL) wrote: John Palmar - Short of going out and buying some expensive cumbersome security program, I'd download several of the very good freebee security programs, such as: snip a friend of mine with a young teen aged daughter that uses IM pgms a lot. Mentioned to me he had to use AVG's Anti-Spyware and Anti-Rootkit to remove some things not caught by SpyBot or Ad-Aware on her computer. I can vouch for AVG's Anti-Virus pgm as a good one. All of them are free. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/frt/0 ymmv -- GB 73's KA5OAI Sam Morgan ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
RE: [Elecraft] dangerous software
Absolutely! I have used AVG Anti-Virus by Grisoft for over four years on several machines without a single issue. In my experience it is far more stable and reliable than either of the two highly-advertised brands that often come pre-loaded on new machines, and it has a much, much smaller memory 'footprint'. My version is the paid one since I use my computers in my business. IIRC it's costing me about a buck a month on each machine. Downloads take only a few seconds. The paid version (at least) updates automatically. IIRC the free version simply requires a click on a radio button. They offer 24X7 support for the paid version as well, but I can't say how well it works because I've never needed it. I deal with hundreds of e-mails each day. AVG just keeps working and working. The only evidence it's there is when it grabs an infected file and quarantines it. I lean on Windows Firewall and deal with SPAM by identifying the dozens (hundreds?) of people - friends and clients alike - who I expect to hear from and have Outlook shunt their mail into specific folders. That leaves almost nothing but SPAM in the in-box. I can quickly scan it for anything I want to save and then dump the lot in one move. I prefer doing that after having a SPAM filter accidentally grab and trash a few important e-mails from clients. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- a friend of mine with a young teen aged daughter that uses IM pgms a lot. Mentioned to me he had to use AVG's Anti-Spyware and Anti-Rootkit to remove some things not caught by SpyBot or Ad-Aware on her computer. I can vouch for AVG's Anti-Virus pgm as a good one. All of them are free. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/frt/0 ymmv -- GB 73's KA5OAI Sam Morgan ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Downloads take only a few seconds. The paid version (at least) updates automatically. IIRC the free version simply requires a click on a radio button. In the free version, updates are automagically downloaded each day at the time you set them to do so. Or it can be done manually if u wish. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/frt/0 -- GB 73's KA5OAI Sam Morgan ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
