Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-12-01 Thread dave o'brien
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Anthony Farr wrote: I've seen this kind of address on some spam e-mails, and I've read that they are sent directly into your mail reader while online, rather than being downloaded from your ISP's mail server. That's why they have the strange address details. Just what

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Anthony Farr
I've seen this kind of address on some spam e-mails, and I've read that they are sent directly into your mail reader while online, rather than being downloaded from your ISP's mail server. That's why they have the strange address details. Just what I read but as I have no effing idea how email

RE: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Kent Gittings
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Rittenhouse Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere The one that got me was, I think, a script embedded in an e-mail. When I selected the e

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
That's a lot of work. Not using Outlook frees me, it seems, from having to deal with this garbage. Sorry you got infected, but, just out of curiosity, if various MS products are so susceptible to this sort of thing, why use those products? Is there some feature about Outlook that makes it

RE: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Mick Maguire
I had to remove W32.Badtrans.B virus from a machine this week too. Norton only added this definition a few days ago (24th I believe), so if you haven't run liveupdate since then it wont pick it up. Once I installed the latest update it removed the virus fine. You also need to check Windows Update

RE: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Mick Maguire
BTW an easy way to see if you have W32.Badtrans is to check for the existence of Kernel32.exe (that's EXE and *NOT* DLL) and kdll.dll in your windows system directory, as those arte the virus files. You can remove the virus by deleteting them both in safe mode. Of course you also need to delete

RE: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Sas Gabor
Hi, On 30 Nov 2001 at 10:04, Kent Gittings wrote: In my opinion at least Outlook tends to be more intuitive than using the Netscape email client. But these are only two. Two of the most common ones, and obviously the ones the viruses and worms are tested on. Personally, I'm for Pegasus

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-30 Thread Bill D. Casselberry
Shel wrote: That's a lot of work. Not using Outlook frees me, it seems, from having to deal with this garbage. Not using WinDoze is even better. One of the benefits of Macintosh's small market share is that these viro-nutz don't bother attacking since the big

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-29 Thread aimcompute
: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:20 PM Subject: Viruses Worms Everywhere I don't know about you all, but in the last three days I've received eleven email messages that contained a virus or a worm. Be careful out there ... -- Shel Belinkoff - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-29 Thread Anthony Farr
Shel, Were they in attachments or embedded in HTML? I'd just like to know what to watch out for. Regards, Anthony Farr - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know about you all, but in the last three days I've received eleven email messages that

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
to have triggered the virus. So be careful. --graywolf - Original Message - From: aimcompute [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:32 PM Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere Norton hasn't detected any on my machine in that time frame. but I've seen

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere Shel, Were they in attachments or embedded in HTML? I'd just like to know what to watch out for. Regards, Anthony Farr - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know about you all

Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere

2001-11-29 Thread Shel Belinkoff
I've not seen anything embedded in HTML, but, in all honesty, I'm not sure what to look for. What I received were attachments sent, in part, through mailing list messages. The ones that came my way were blank messages, the sender of which had an odd aspect to his/her email address. The