Re: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
Xavier Fromant wrote: Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant Name: Pretty Park.exe Pretty Park.exeType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: base64 now why are you sending a virus to the list?
RE: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
What the heck is this and why are you sending it to the newbie mandrake list??? Chris -Original Message- From: Xavier Fromant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe File: Pretty Park.exe Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant
VIRUS DETECT IN THIS EMAIL DO NOT OPENRe: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
I just downloaded this email with its attachment and my virus program found a virus in the .exe file At 11:32 PM 3/1/2000 +0100, Xavier Fromant wrote: Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant
Get a grip -- was: Re: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
Let the BillMan help you guys out a little. 1) This is the wrong place to send your virus e-mail SPAM 2) Until you get a flash announcement from ZDNet, Symantec, Network Solutions, etc. then it's also just not true. There's no way on this Earth that you or your e-mail 'friends' (and their friends, and their friends, and so-on, and so-on...) have identified any kind of virus that the big guys aren't going to alert someone about. Now, have you ever really thought about these messages? What is a virus' intent? Usually to cause some kind of problem with the machines it comes in contact with, right? In a way, the very message you sent is a virus. It's being forwarded to e-mail lists, it's been sent to everyone in your address book, and the process continues. What does that do? Well, 1) it causes more traffic around the net 2) it causes e-mail servers to work harder 3) it pisses everyone that receives a copy off -- especially when it's completely off topic for a support list. I have plenty of idiot e-mail friends that are/are going to send me this very same message. I hardly need it to come to me via a high volume list serve! steps down from soap box What you should do. You have a larger responsibility than to simply forward on e-mails. If you think the threat is real then you need to hit the Virus Protection manufacturer's pages and do the research. There's also a page, address escapes me, that deals specifically with all these *FAKE* virus alerts. Don't be a carrier/transmitter! Figure out if the threat is real. If it is you'll find official announcements that can be forwarded that will also include instructions on how to exterminate the virus. Be smart. Be safe. Be diligent in your e-mail forwarding. Bill - Original Message - From: "Ferris, Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe What the heck is this and why are you sending it to the newbie mandrake list??? Chris -Original Message- From: Xavier Fromant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe File: Pretty Park.exe Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant
Re: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 07:14:35 -0700, you wrote: What the heck is this and why are you sending it to the newbie mandrake list??? Well, I hope you didnt run it. Its a worm program. He prob got hit with it. Thats what it does...in part, is send out more emails using the affected computers address file to further propogate it. Chris -Original Message- From: Xavier Fromant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:33 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe File: Pretty Park.exe Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant
Re: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
It is a virus, it sent itself to evreyone on Xavier's address list - bet he's embarresed... I posted a fix as "RE: VIRUS VIRUS - if it got you". It was nice to find that my anti virus software works (pccillin 98) - spotted it as soon as I moved the attachment to a new folder to check it. Only the 2nd virus I've seen in 6 months, 1st one was opened in Netscape, which just displayed it as a text file - lesson for the day - Outlook express unsafe, don't open email attacments from *ANYONE* without checking them - sez me, with outlook express :o) -WBD - Original Message - From: "Ferris, Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 3:14 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe What the heck is this and why are you sending it to the newbie mandrake list??? Chris -Original Message- From: Xavier Fromant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe File: Pretty Park.exe Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant
