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OT - virus warning - 5/20/2004
AVG - Free, powerful anti-virus software download:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php I've been using it for years, and it's the best out there. Doesn't screw up the computer like Norton, etc. Updates automatically, all the time (if you have an open connection) so it catches all the new baddies. PLEASE get it if you haven't done so already. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net someone using an ISP in Santa Fe that reads this group has a virus on their computer. the supposed 'names' are all from this group in various forms. PLEASE check your computers regularly! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com newest creations: http://www.vickijean.com/new.html ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all. Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings. |
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Ick, sounds nasty. Is it someone using your newsgroup server? My
Mailwasher and AVG haven't seen anything at all. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net ]Doesn't screw up ]the computer like Norton, etc. Updates automatically, all the time (if you ]have an open connection) so it catches all the new baddies. PLEASE get it ]if you haven't done so already. well, my Norton does all those things AND more and hasn't messed up my computer so far, although it isn't free. David has actually managed to track it back to someone using comcast, believe it or not, and the virus itself is relaying through a Santa Fe ISP that allows e-mail relaying. and the 'munged' addresses all have variations of people's names from here. so far, they've all been caught by our e-mail server software, and my mailwasher. but Kandice is right - virus checkers are more important than ever these days! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com newest creations: http://www.vickijean.com/new.html ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all. Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings. |
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The days of just turning your computer on and dialing into the Internet
without a care are in the past. Nowadays you need to have a strong defensive system on your computer. Four things make up this defense: (1) Anti-virus: I use AVG as well and really like it. I like Norton but some of the MS Office applications have issues with Norton. (2) Firewall: Hardware as well as software. My router and ISP cover me. Zone Alarm has a free version but setting it up can be a bit of a pain to computer novices. (3) Malware protection: I use Ad-Aware, also free. (4) Anti-Spam softwa I've heard excellent reviews about Mailwasher, also free. Another product to consider is a pop-up blocker. I use Panic-ware's Pop-Up Stopper, free again. Did you notice that all of the defenses you should have are available for FREE? You certainly can't argue the cost. And before you ask, no, I am not inundated with crap mail because I use these products. (I got hit because my addy was harvested from the Microsoft newsgroups.) If you aren't certain if you are protected/clean/safe/whatever, go to www.symantec.com and follow the links for the Security Check. You can check to see if you have any viruses, worms, or Trojan Horses AND you can check to see if your system is protected against hackers. Safe Surfin' -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Kandice Seeber" wrote in message ... AVG - Free, powerful anti-virus software download: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php I've been using it for years, and it's the best out there. Doesn't screw up the computer like Norton, etc. Updates automatically, all the time (if you have an open connection) so it catches all the new baddies. PLEASE get it if you haven't done so already. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net someone using an ISP in Santa Fe that reads this group has a virus on their computer. the supposed 'names' are all from this group in various forms. PLEASE check your computers regularly! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com newest creations: http://www.vickijean.com/new.html ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all. Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings. |
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My ISP has black holed all comcast.net email due to problems like this.
They have contacted comcast about the problem without results. Armand Vine |
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Mmmm - the last 18 hours or so, I have been swamped with undeliverable
emails myself. Comcast was down for about 12 hours last night, as well. Both cable and internet, all over my area. This is not an indication that I have a virus (scanned three times with different software, and I am clean), but that my email address was harvested from the virus vistim's address book, right? Have had over 400 in the last 18 hours. So glad I have Mailwasher. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net ]Ick, sounds nasty. Is it someone using your newsgroup server? My ]Mailwasher and AVG haven't seen anything at all. no - they're just messages coming in to my vj mail address from a virus program someone has on their computer. since they're not coming into any of my other mailboxes, it's probably someone who reads this group, since the virus picked up and tried to pretend to use other names from this group. [i saw dragonbeads and tink's gamergrl addresses flash past] there were over 200 of them in about ten minutes. David has set our servers now to not allow e-mail from that particular ISP since they allow mail relaying [which isn't a good idea anyway and most ISPs figured that out a long time ago] but this particular set eventually tracked back to someone using comcast - and i know a lot of people here do use that. ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com newest creations: http://www.vickijean.com/new.html ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all. Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings. |
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Your ISP blocks email from all Comcast users, but that doesn't solve
anything. Comcast is huge. The virus will attack anyone who is listed in the virus victim's email address book - regardless of whther their ISP is Comcast. And it will spread to non-Comcast users easily and can get to you that way. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net My ISP has black holed all comcast.net email due to problems like this. They have contacted comcast about the problem without results. Armand Vine |
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Not necessarily, Kandice. Your email address may have been hijacked by
spammers. Mine has and I'm wondering when my halseytrading.com domain will turn up on one or all of the blacklists used by many ISP's for spam filtering purposes. I get waves of undeliverable email notices from all over the world - the most recent onslaught started last weekend. One of my importers found out the hard way that their domain was on SpamCop's blacklist as a spammer. I had wondered why I wasn't getting my usual mail from them and that's why. I have Mailwasher now too as the spam filtering my domain ISP uses was filtering out some of my customers' emails. Now THAT'S really not good for business! It's hard enough to get through to people - especially AOHell users - who are filtering their mail and have failed to put my email in their address book or on their 'friends' lists. Sometimes I have to send out four different emails from four different email addresses before one will get through to a forgetful new customer. This kind of crap has taken all the fun out of doing business on the web... Mj -- ================================= Marjean Cline - Certified Bead Enabler Halsey Trading Company eBay ID: ladymorgause http://stores.ebay.com/Halsey-Tradin...ny?refid=store ================================= "Kandice Seeber" wrote in message ... Mmmm - the last 18 hours or so, I have been swamped with undeliverable emails myself. Comcast was down for about 12 hours last night, as well. Both cable and internet, all over my area. This is not an indication that I have a virus (scanned three times with different software, and I am clean), but that my email address was harvested from the virus vistim's address book, right? Have had over 400 in the last 18 hours. So glad I have Mailwasher. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net |
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Oh, yes, I know my email has been hijacked by spammers - that goes without
saying. But I am reasonably sure the latest thing is a virus, because it cropped up so suddenly. I get spam on a regular basis, and because it's really hard to set filters to filter out the real spam without filtering out customers, I have to go through it all in Mailwasher and check off everything I want bounced and deleted from the server. It is a pain and I hate it. But the last 18 hours or so have been much worse than normal. Of course, I am just guessing, but it smells like a virus to me. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net Not necessarily, Kandice. Your email address may have been hijacked by spammers. Mine has and I'm wondering when my halseytrading.com domain will turn up on one or all of the blacklists used by many ISP's for spam filtering purposes. I get waves of undeliverable email notices from all over the world - the most recent onslaught started last weekend. One of my importers found out the hard way that their domain was on SpamCop's blacklist as a spammer. I had wondered why I wasn't getting my usual mail from them and that's why. I have Mailwasher now too as the spam filtering my domain ISP uses was filtering out some of my customers' emails. Now THAT'S really not good for business! It's hard enough to get through to people - especially AOHell users - who are filtering their mail and have failed to put my email in their address book or on their 'friends' lists. Sometimes I have to send out four different emails from four different addresses before one will get through to a forgetful new customer. This kind of crap has taken all the fun out of doing business on the web... Mj -- ================================= Marjean Cline - Certified Bead Enabler Halsey Trading Company eBay ID: ladymorgause http://stores.ebay.com/Halsey-Tradin...ny?refid=store ================================= "Kandice Seeber" wrote in message ... Mmmm - the last 18 hours or so, I have been swamped with undeliverable emails myself. Comcast was down for about 12 hours last night, as well. Both cable and internet, all over my area. This is not an indication that I have a virus (scanned three times with different software, and I am clean), but that my email address was harvested from the virus vistim's address book, right? Have had over 400 in the last 18 hours. So glad I have Mailwasher. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net |
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If you're getting emails from ISP's saying something you sent is
undeliverable, it's quite possible some spammers are now munging *your* email address as the sender of spam. I used to think those were the result of viruses on other people's machines, but I noticed that the emails attached to the mailer-daemon notices were actually spams for everything from Cialis to Vicodin - or worse. That's when I realized my domain email had been hijacked. I wrote to my ISP about it and they said there's nothing anyone can do about it except to try to find the spammers and sue them for what boils down to identity theft. If you get blank emails and *don't* bounce them, you just might be telling a spammer that your email address is alive and kicking and a good one to munge. I took your advice several months ago and bought Mailwasher so I could bounce the crap back, but as you know, it hardly does any good because the email list sellers don't bother to cull bounced emails from the lists they sell. I think the spam I hate the most right now is the one that says "If you received this email you're not protected from spammers, so buy this product from us now!!" What kind of unmitigated gall is THAT??? Mj -- ================================= Marjean Cline - Certified Bead Enabler Halsey Trading Company eBay ID: ladymorgause http://stores.ebay.com/Halsey-Tradin...ny?refid=store ================================= "Kandice Seeber" wrote in message ... Oh, yes, I know my email has been hijacked by spammers - that goes without saying. But I am reasonably sure the latest thing is a virus, because it cropped up so suddenly. I get spam on a regular basis, and because it's really hard to set filters to filter out the real spam without filtering out customers, I have to go through it all in Mailwasher and check off everything I want bounced and deleted from the server. It is a pain and I hate it. But the last 18 hours or so have been much worse than normal. Of course, I am just guessing, but it smells like a virus to me. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net |
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I think the spam I hate the most right now is the one that says "If you
received this email you're not protected from spammers, so buy this product from us now!!" What kind of unmitigated gall is THAT??? LOL I just deleted TWO of those when I signed on! Could someone please explain the blank emails? I get them and don't understand how that works at all. KarenK |
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