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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
....just wanted to give everyone a "heads up".
I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
noah wrote:
...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah Thanks! -- * * * email sent to will *never* get to me. |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
I so wish I could think of a quick and witty reply to this. Ideally, I
would tie it back to the virus for a secondary gag. I'll use the excuse that my brain is numbed by alcohol, I just made a drink and took one sip. Yea, that's it.... sigh -W "noah" wrote in message and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:18:12 -0500, noah wrote:
************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** I just deleted over 200 of the damn things. I found this article on the worm: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32925.html |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
I feel neglected. . .I've only had to delete 21 since last night, Ron.
"thunder" wrote I just deleted over 200 of the damn things. I found this article on the worm: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32925.html |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
Man, I'm getting tons of these things. Thank god for message rules.
"noah" wrote in message ... ...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
Really? I'd love to see a message rule that works. I've made a rule
containing every permutation I've seen for the subject line of the worm, but half of them are still getting through. What a pain in the ass.... "j" wrote in message news:6VEab.70406$Zw4.52271@lakeread03... Man, I'm getting tons of these things. Thank god for message rules. "noah" wrote in message ... ...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
I filter is based on the from field and anything else with an attachment
goes in a junk folder so I can look at it before deleting. It's not foolproof but it works quite well for me, I don't get many legitimate emails with attachments anyways. JAy "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... Really? I'd love to see a message rule that works. I've made a rule containing every permutation I've seen for the subject line of the worm, but half of them are still getting through. What a pain in the ass.... "j" wrote in message news:6VEab.70406$Zw4.52271@lakeread03... Man, I'm getting tons of these things. Thank god for message rules. "noah" wrote in message ... ...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
Yea, I've been getting those continuously since yesterday... about 50 times
so far. I also got a bunch of the latest worm attacks last week, but not nearly as bad as the last time. -- Keith __ "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."--Ernest Hemingway "noah" wrote in message ... ...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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Virus Alert- email from rec.boats
Noah, it might not be the fault of rec.boats' gentle readers; it could be
that your email address was harvested from an earlier post. I notice you have munged your address slightly, but it was not always so. Spammers use robots to cull email addresses from Usenet posts, so ** Never use your real email address when posting to Usenet! ** Make it easy to clean up, like Noah has done, if you really want to be able get email from anybody on the planet with a news reader. -- frosty noah wrote: ...just wanted to give everyone a "heads up". I recently received a few emails from rec.boats users concerning my FAQ questions, and also concerning "scareing" a 20hp Merc to put out 30hp. Almost immediately, my rec.boats email addy started getting thumped with virus attachments. I haven't sent the virus to McAfee yet, but it is probably one of the current email worms or bugs. I update every couple of days, use a firewall, and also use an email quarantine utility, so it didn't get through to my system. ************************************************** **************** Most of the virus email subjects repute to be a "Microsoft Security Update", or related MS Upgrade. A few subjects referred to "Undeliverable Mail". ************************************************** **************** Be careful. Don't click on *any* executable (in this case it's 104Kb) unless you know what it is. Anyone who has emailed me recently should do a thorough virus scan, with an updated protection program. It's a pretty good bet that one of you has the virus, and it put me on the sucker list. As you were... ) noah |
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