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Number: 4598
From: "SNP Marq"
Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:54 pm
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] Somebody has a virus here
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Re: [ASC McLaren ] Somebody has a virus here
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I am clean too. But it doesn't mean that one of the 'group' are infected necessarily. The way current viruses and worms work, it just takes a 'stranger' that is infected to visit and read the messages posted in our group. The worm gathers e-mail addresses from the pages that the infected person visits and than tags those e-mail addresses as the 'sender' or the addressee. It basically performs a spoofing of the sender to try to build a level of trust with the recipient.
On the other hand, it could be a member of the group. In that case the virus / worm would look through their 'address book' of their MS Outlook Express and fire off e-mails to the folks it finds stored there.
So far I have not received any 'infected' e-mail from members of the asc group. However, I am seeing about 50 to 100 infected e-mails a day being picked up by my e-mail virus scanner.
One last fast thing here... some of the virus scanners can be knocked out by the current bunch of worms and viruses that are floating around. If you find your computer has been a tad slow lately or you just want to make 100% sure that your virus scanner is functioning properly and that you are not infected, you can use the free online scan at TrendMicro to scan your computer. If it finds anything it will tell you and allow you to correct or delete the infected file :
It's a good safeguard as it allows you to make sure that nothing has slipped past your own virus checker.
I would mention Symantec who also offers a free online scan, but their lazy ass scan only 'finds' the infected files - and then the damn thing gives you a sales pitch instead of deleting or fixing the infected files ( which I consider in particularly bad taste on Symantec's part - considering that you went there looking to fix a situation - not to be told that you are infected and here is how to spend your $39 bucks ).
Nuff said
Marq
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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:44 PM
Subject: [ASC McLaren ] Somebody has a virus here
Somebody is infected here and there's messages being sent with
attachments. I just got 2, 1 from tallanhobbs and another from
infosyssec. I did a virus scan last night after getting a few
yesterday and I'm clean.
Tom S.