I get a bunch of virus attachments. Since 99.9% of my e-mail on this
account is from the list I believe it is infected list members, although
new viruses can mask the "from" address so I can't easily tell who is
actually infected.
Unfortunately the AAAA or !0000 or whatever trick doesn't work for many
viruses. See http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm
Here are the real tricks:
1. If using Windows, run virus protection. Pay for it. It's worth it.
2. If using Linux or Macintosh, don't worry, you can't really get infected
with most of the viruses anyway. It's just an annoyance.
3. Do NOT use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express!!! Ever!!! They are
horribly insecure and are the target of almost all e-mail viruses.
At 06:55 PM 9/13/2002 -0700, Ron Hamilton wrote:
>My Norton automatically checks any outgoing mail for virus. Another
>trick I vaguely remember is to make the first address in your book
>something like AAAA but an incomplete address and your mail system will
>stall because it can't send the first one. Then you get an error report.
>Don't remember all the details so everyone chime in please.
>
>Ron
>
>Tom Hendricksen wrote:
> > A good policy here if you don't delete on site, or you think there is a
> chance
> > the file is real, send an e-mail to the sender and ask if they really
> sent the
> > file.
> >
> > A virus such as Klez attaches random sender addresses to the files it
> sends,
> > which means you may recognize the sender, but they had nothing to do with
> > sending you that file. It also makes it hard to track down the infected
> > computer to have the virus removed.
> >
> > Tom
> > 69 2000
> > Portland
> >
> > datsunmike wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I got some viruses sent to me yesterday w/ Datsun something in the "from"
> >>line. It was a virus.
> >>
> >>I now delete everything if I don't recognize the sender that has an
> >>attachment.
> >>
> >>Mike
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "SCHMITT, JOHN, MGSVC" <jschmitt0@att.com>
> >>To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:44 PM
> >>Subject: More virus talk
> >>
> >>
> >>>Yesterday I got a note sent from dc@datsuns.net with 2 attachments. The
> >>
> >>subject was "How are you" I opened the letter and the attachments were
> >>ATT909434.txt and YCRLF.txt. Because the sender was datsuns.net I opened
> >>the first attachment but closed it immediately as soon as I saw no text in
> >>it. I did not open the next one.
> >>
> >>>Anybody have any ideas?? Is this a common trick or someone really sending
> >>
> >>me something worth looking at?
> >>
> >>>John Schmitt
> >>>847-458-7829
> >>>Mobile-847-691-4613
> >>>
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