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Author: Ashley
Date: 2001-07-27 19:55
the other day i recieved an email from a Harold Wilson (hcwmusic@machlink.com) entitled "Ever Since I Was A Little Child". The contents were as follows:
"Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks"
attached was a file, "Ever_since_I_was_a_little_child.doc.pif". Not knowing who this email was from, i scanned it w/ Norton Anti-Virus, which said the file contained a virus. Needless to say, I deleted it.
I dont know where this guy got my address, but another friend of mine (who's email is also provided by Yahoo) got the same thing, and also deleted it. I thought to tell you guys because of the 'music' part of his email address..
Just a warning........
~Ashley~
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Author: jbutler
Date: 2001-07-27 21:01
I've gotten four or five of these in the last few days. I don't open files from people I don't know. I do have anti-virus, but I don't even bother to scan attached files anymore.
John
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Author: mw
Date: 2001-07-27 21:26
Many people think that in order to receive email w/viruses attached that the sender has to know you. Anonymous assaults are getting to be pretty routine.
Unfortunately, there are many ways to be detected or to have email sent to you. Hackers write programs which carry out subroutines & nearkly anthing is possible. *No one is immune*. There have been wholesale assaults against ISP's, Cable Networks, DSL Networks, Federal/State Gov't systems & people with dialup IP's.
_If you have an email account, you are susceptible_.
A good rule of thumb is that if 1) you weren't expecting something & 2) don't know the identity of the sender, don't open it. Even if you know someone, it can be harmful to open "unexpected" email. That is how Viruses are often spread, through email systems.
Best,
mw
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-07-27 22:07
It's enough to make almost anyone hesitate before giving out their email address and hide from their Inbox in fear.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2001-07-27 22:15
I've gotten a few of these also. I dump them without opening attachements.
We also use a text based email reader, which makes the virus unable to execute
without some effort on your part. Viruses have been designed to be word or excel macros,
no word, no excel, no virus.
But the spam has already started on our new account, at least I've got my own mail now
unstead of my hubby's.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2001-07-27 22:17
Of course there is the Amish virus.
Which is a chain letter saying
"Please send this email to five friends and then delete all your files."
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-07-27 23:34
I get between 10 to 20 of these a day right now. It is a potentially embarrasing virus, too, as it mails a document from a computer to a number of people in your address book.
There's also a spanish and german version of the same virus.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2001-07-27 23:47
This virus changes the attached file and title every time it is sent. Basically, look for the wording that was mentioned,
"Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks"
It could come inadvertently from anyone who has your email address in their address book. Do not open the attachment because it will arbitrarily select a file from your "My Documents" folder and send it to everyone in your address book.
Don't blame the person you received it from for be malicious, just for being tricked into opening an attachment that was sent to him. You can be nice and send him an email letting him know there is a virus on his machine.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2001-07-28 01:02
Exactly what I did two days ago when I got the same lines from a good friend of mine. Luckily I had read about this virus apparently called "Sircam" in a newspaper the same day so I was prepared. Also I was using a Nokia 9110 with no application for opening attached files at the moment so I was saved two times. I hope I also saved some of our mutual friends by informing him about the virus. He informed everyone in his addressbook immediately.
Alphie
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Author: joevacc
Date: 2001-07-28 01:47
I also have gotten several files like these as well. In all my computing years I never contracted a virus or spread one. It is very nice to be a Mac owner. I know Mac virus' are out there, but on a very small percentage comparatively.
-=[Joe Vacc]=-
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-07-29 14:41
If you DO get this virus an automatic fix is on
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-07-29 19:43
To all -- WARNING --
The safest thing you can do if you get an e-mail with an attachment from someone whom you do not know is DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!! TRASH THE WHOLE THING IMMEDIATELY, IF NOT SOONER!! A vicious computer worm is out there and the other day and it got into my internet provider and crashed my IP for over 14 hours until they finally located the problem and eliminated it. This is a real serious problem which has an automatic aspect about it in which you don't have to do anything but open the attachment and it does the rest of it by really fouling up your computer and has the capability of transfering itself to anyone else you communicat with. IMB type computers are especially susceptible to this virus. Mac's may be! Again, TRASH THE WHOLE E-MAIL IMMEDIATELY!!
Bob Curtis
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-07-30 11:32
And how does one detect the type of email that contains a virus but without an attachment. Leave it to the antivirus software? What if the specific software for that particular virus is not yet written? Wait a week before opening any email from an unknown writer?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-07-30 11:46
An attachment (inluding HTML) must be present.
The anti-virus places have software in place within hours (normally) after a virus is discovered in the wild.
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