Worm Alert

Some of you are computer savvy enough to know how to deal with email.
You either have virus software of some sort, use spam blocker, or
otherwise know what to do with your email.

However, there are enough newbies out there that I wanted to mention a
new worm that is pretty nasty and has been talked about all day on the
radio. I actually got email with it this morning, though I trashed it
and didn't get infected. As of 2 pm CST, there was no fix for this.

Watch carefully for any mail that has, as a subject line, any of the
following:

Days of the week
Hi, Hello, Hey, etc. etc.
Mail Returned, Mail Rejected, etc. etc.

If you get mail from a source you know, but it has an attachment and you
weren't expecting it, write and ask before you open it. That includes
email from needlework businesses: I got one this morning from The
Silver Needle and have gotten them from SEVERAL very nice needlework
firms in the past, including Berlin Embroidery more than once. Either
they, or their customers are infected with some virus OR a spammer has
forged their address.

Don't open ANY attachment without confirming first. Not ever! Not from
your best friend, not anybody. If possible, set your mail program so
that it won't download anything bigger than 30K. That forces you to
think. You can always *get* the file, but it won't come off the server
in full unless you tell your server to get it.

Dianne

Diane,
I've gotten about 20 of those messages so far myself. It's the one 'perk' of
having an AOL account is that attachments are NEVER open automatically so I
stay fairly safe.


Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence of the planet is a constant.
The population is increasing.

LIL!!!!!!!!!!!! How ya doing darlin'??


"LHBanchik" wrote in message
...
Diane,
I've gotten about 20 of those messages so far myself. It's the one 'perk'
of
having an AOL account is that attachments are NEVER open automatically so
I
stay fairly safe.


Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence of the planet is a
constant.
The population is increasing.

In article , Dianne Lewandowski
writes:

Don't open ANY attachment without confirming first. Not ever! Not from
your best friend, not anybody.

Hear, hear!

Just remember that there is no picture so cute, no joke so funny that it's
worth a $200 computer repair bill.

Your cover letter with an attachment should not just say "pictures of the kids"
.... it should say "pictures of Sarah and Emily". Because if I get that from
someone whose kids I know are named Rover and Fido, it's an instant tip-off
that this is not something I want to open. Alternately, if I get it from Sarah
and Emily's mom, I can be reasonably sure it's safe.


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WIP: Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe, Guide the Hands (2d
one)

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snip

FYI, excellent, easy to use and FREE virus software can be found at

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

Anne, whose original ID is soon to be abandoned because it's in every spammer
database in the known universe

The notice we got at my office today from the company who handles our tech
support also specified that the attachment may be in ".zip" format. First
thing this morning one of my co-workers got an email from another attorney
in town with a .zip attachment and, thinking it had to do with a contract
they were working on, tried to open it. She received an error message,
called the attorney and he suggested that he might have a virus. A couple
of hours later I received the warning email from our tech support and they
are now scheduled to come check us out to see if we have been infected.

I haven't received anything like that at home (so far).

Bonnie (knocking on wood)


"Dianne Lewandowski" wrote in message
...
Some of you are computer savvy enough to know how to deal with email.
You either have virus software of some sort, use spam blocker, or
otherwise know what to do with your email.

However, there are enough newbies out there that I wanted to mention a
new worm that is pretty nasty and has been talked about all day on the
radio. I actually got email with it this morning, though I trashed it
and didn't get infected. As of 2 pm CST, there was no fix for this.

Watch carefully for any mail that has, as a subject line, any of the
following:

Days of the week
Hi, Hello, Hey, etc. etc.
Mail Returned, Mail Rejected, etc. etc.

If you get mail from a source you know, but it has an attachment and you
weren't expecting it, write and ask before you open it. That includes
email from needlework businesses: I got one this morning from The
Silver Needle and have gotten them from SEVERAL very nice needlework
firms in the past, including Berlin Embroidery more than once. Either
they, or their customers are infected with some virus OR a spammer has
forged their address.

Don't open ANY attachment without confirming first. Not ever! Not from
your best friend, not anybody. If possible, set your mail program so
that it won't download anything bigger than 30K. That forces you to
think. You can always *get* the file, but it won't come off the server
in full unless you tell your server to get it.

Dianne

On 1/27/04 8:10 PM,"Bonnie" posted:

The notice we got at my office today from the company who handles our tech
support also specified that the attachment may be in ".zip" format. First
thing this morning one of my co-workers got an email from another attorney
in town with a .zip attachment and, thinking it had to do with a contract

We got one with a .zip on DH's mail - got rid of it - fortunately the MAC
and its software didn't let us open it.

The good thing with this system - most of these .exe viruses don't really
affect the MACs, just the annoyance of all that trash mail. Of course,
running a virus protection software all the time is key.

ellice

Also you might take into consideration that a lot of the "better" online
needleshops will never put or receive, an attachment to their emails...

Marc

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http://www.cyberstitchers.com/Galler...=1065918331265
"Dianne Lewandowski" wrote in message
...
Some of you are computer savvy enough to know how to deal with email.
You either have virus software of some sort, use spam blocker, or
otherwise know what to do with your email.

However, there are enough newbies out there that I wanted to mention a
new worm that is pretty nasty and has been talked about all day on the
radio. I actually got email with it this morning, though I trashed it
and didn't get infected. As of 2 pm CST, there was no fix for this.

Watch carefully for any mail that has, as a subject line, any of the
following:

Days of the week
Hi, Hello, Hey, etc. etc.
Mail Returned, Mail Rejected, etc. etc.

If you get mail from a source you know, but it has an attachment and you
weren't expecting it, write and ask before you open it. That includes
email from needlework businesses: I got one this morning from The
Silver Needle and have gotten them from SEVERAL very nice needlework
firms in the past, including Berlin Embroidery more than once. Either
they, or their customers are infected with some virus OR a spammer has
forged their address.

Don't open ANY attachment without confirming first. Not ever! Not from
your best friend, not anybody. If possible, set your mail program so
that it won't download anything bigger than 30K. That forces you to
think. You can always *get* the file, but it won't come off the server
in full unless you tell your server to get it.

Dianne

One of my responsibilites at work is to manage our network firewall. We
set it to strip off email attachments with certain extensions (.exe,
..bat, .vbs, .....). I added .zip today because of this stupid virus.
My company consists of 7 hospitals in the Baltimore/Washington D.C area,
the data centers and several smaller locations in the area. With just
over 25000 employees company wide we have now stripped this stupid virus
over 150,000 times in less than 2 days. These virus writers should not
be fined or sent to jail if caught, they should be handed over to the IT
people that have to deal with the mess these people cause. I cannot
begin to account for the number of hours I have spend dealing with
viruses in the past year or the number of personal commitments I have
had to cancel or postpone to deal with another virus attack just as I
was leaving work for the day. These people (and I use the term loosely)
have cost companies and governments millions if not billions of dollars
in software, hardware and manhours to deal with this garbage. These
"people" create these viruses because they think it's fun and because
they can. These "people" need to get a life!!!!!!!!!!!

Anne (in Ellicott City, MD)
just a little passionate about this subject.

Ellice wrote:

On 1/27/04 8:10 PM,"Bonnie" posted:



The notice we got at my office today from the company who handles our tech
support also specified that the attachment may be in ".zip" format. First
thing this morning one of my co-workers got an email from another attorney
in town with a .zip attachment and, thinking it had to do with a contract



We got one with a .zip on DH's mail - got rid of it - fortunately the MAC
and its software didn't let us open it.

The good thing with this system - most of these .exe viruses don't really
affect the MACs, just the annoyance of all that trash mail. Of course,
running a virus protection software all the time is key.

ellice

Yesterday, I sent a note off to The Silver Needle - since I got email
from them with this virus attached. Today, I got an email from a school
in the UK telling me that I had the worm and sent it to them. I don't,
but it would seem email addresses are being "grabbed" to spread this around.

As if viruses and worms aren't enough for IT (and heavy home computer
users), another huge headache is spy software that imbeds itself. Thank
you, but I don't want big brother or corporate america gathering info
about me, nor causing my computer to crash because of pop-up ads, ad
nauseum . . .

I hear you, Anne.
300 SPAM a day and it's not stopping anytime soon. We should ALL write
our legislators in Washington and our various States and various
Governments on a global basis and tell them you won't vote for them
again unless they fix this problem.
Dianne

Anne Tuchscherer wrote:
One of my responsibilites at work is to manage our network firewall. We
set it to strip off email attachments with certain extensions (.exe,
.bat, .vbs, .....). I added .zip today because of this stupid virus.
My company consists of 7 hospitals in the Baltimore/Washington D.C area,
the data centers and several smaller locations in the area. With just
over 25000 employees company wide we have now stripped this stupid virus
over 150,000 times in less than 2 days. These virus writers should not
be fined or sent to jail if caught, they should be handed over to the IT
people that have to deal with the mess these people cause. I cannot
begin to account for the number of hours I have spend dealing with
viruses in the past year or the number of personal commitments I have
had to cancel or postpone to deal with another virus attack just as I
was leaving work for the day. These people (and I use the term loosely)
have cost companies and governments millions if not billions of dollars
in software, hardware and manhours to deal with this garbage. These
"people" create these viruses because they think it's fun and because
they can. These "people" need to get a life!!!!!!!!!!!

Anne (in Ellicott City, MD)
just a little passionate about this subject.

Ellice wrote:

On 1/27/04 8:10 PM,"Bonnie" posted:



The notice we got at my office today from the company who handles our
tech
support also specified that the attachment may be in ".zip" format.
First
thing this morning one of my co-workers got an email from another
attorney
in town with a .zip attachment and, thinking it had to do with a
contract



We got one with a .zip on DH's mail - got rid of it - fortunately the MAC
and its software didn't let us open it.

The good thing with this system - most of these .exe viruses don't really
affect the MACs, just the annoyance of all that trash mail. Of course,
running a virus protection software all the time is key.

ellice