Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Oak Grove, Kentucky
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E-Mail Virus

Hi All,
This person or people is pissing me off.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99141


When they are caught, the police should throw away the key to their jail cell. Do anybody disagree?


Byron

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I completely agree. But I find it exasperating that email virus' spread so easily. I tell my users not to open an email attachment unless they know precisely what it is. I also remind them that knowing the sender is not the same as knowing what the file is. Finally, I've warned them that anyone who gets infected with a virus owes me a case of the beer of my choice, payable before I clean up their mess.

Why on earth would you attempt to open an unknown file from someone you know let alone someone you don't know?

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What irks me is a double: People who send files like "Picture.GIF.EXE", and the people who are stupid enough to download it!

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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And I get irked because Windows decided to start 'hiding' extensions and people don't know (or don't want) to turn them back on.

Yea, Viruses are nasty. But remember that they do prey on the novice computer user and bad software programming. That's not to say they're solely to blame, but they should share the blame.

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Registered: May 2000
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wel it sucks. Outlook XP doesn't let me even open them!!! I hate it! I can't be stupid enough to infect myself..


on the other hand - I was praying that some idiot at handspring would infect their computer, and e-mail me some top secret product roadmap or something. I would infect myself just to get that!

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Re: E-Mail Virus

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Originally posted by ByronC
Hi All,
This person or people is pissing me off.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99141


When they are caught, the police should throw away the key to their jail cell. Do anybody disagree?


Byron

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Registered: Sep 1999
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It looks like james is being hit big time by this one too:
http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-2-1080-2.htm

The thing scans your IE history for email adresses... hence why James is getting so much cr@p...

Also I read an article the FBI was hit by this virus too and some confedential files were forwarded as well... not good for an institute as the FBI.. they should know better...

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Originally posted by ToolkiT
Also I read an article the FBI was hit by this virus too and some confedential files were forwarded as well... not good for an institute as the FBI.. they should know better...

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I guess you haven't been reading much about the FBI lately? http://www.msnbc.com/local/rtfli/m70092.asp

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: South Carolina
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MANY THANKS TO JAMES!

In addition to my other myriad of duties around here, I am the "network administrator." Which means I have to take the backup tapes home everyday and people bug me with little computer questions until I decide to call in our outside consultants...

Anyway, I sent the warning from James around this a.m. when I got here and, sure enough, some folks got the message and would most likely have opened it up (Heaven help us!) if they hadn't seen my/James' warning!!

THANKS JAMES AND VC!

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Re: MANY THANKS TO JAMES!

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Originally posted by K. Cannon
In addition to my other myriad of duties around here, I am the "network administrator." Which means I have to take the backup tapes home everyday and people bug me with little computer questions until I decide to call in our outside consultants...

Anyway, I sent the warning from James around this a.m. when I got here and, sure enough, some folks got the message and would most likely have opened it up (Heaven help us!) if they hadn't seen my/James' warning!!

THANKS JAMES AND VC!

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Thanks for the kudos. This is the first big worm/virus that I actually received. Nobody loves me, nor people do not want me to see Anna Kournikova naked. They do, however, want to help me with a mortgage, get me a credit card, get me a merchant account, enlarge various parts and shrink others, etc.

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ack ... i've given up opening e-mail unless it was something i was expecting it ...

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Location: Sydney Australia
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Originally posted by Toby
I guess you haven't been reading much about the FBI lately? http://www.msnbc.com/local/rtfli/m70092.asp

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It is one fine institution I see....

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The Internet Community, Microsoft, your local ISP, etc.. should be up in arms

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Microsoft announced some months back that a security flaw in the IIS software had been identified, and offered a patch to fix it a couple days later. Anyone who didn't bother to use the patch, well, that's your own lookout.

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I am having the same problem James is having. I have been besieged by people sending me this virus. Luckily this was a pretty easy one to spot and get rid of before my computer is infected but it is EXTREMELY annoying to take 20 mintues to check my email. This morning I had over 6 MB worth of emails on my server, 95% are messages containing the SirCam virus. Grrrrrrrrrrr..

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aberdeen, SD
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We're getting absolutely swamped at work with virus's. Oddly, we haven't had to deal with SirCam, yet.

James, I love you, and though I'm no Anna Kournikova...

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