Guest guest Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 I received a virus too. Sue [suemgau] Tuesday, October 08, 2002 5:24 AM [CrystalHW] Virus?? Hi Peggy, Seems your computer may have a virus in it and using your email address book to send it out (hope I am wrong here). I have received it twice now, luckily my virus protection found it before it could get in (I hope!!) Love SueG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 W32.Bugbear.mm is a HIGH risk virus....and it is not necessarily Peggy's computer at all. This worm has the ability to spoof, or forge, the '' field. (Often set to an address found on the victim's machine). Additionally the virus can use a fabricated from address, by taking the name before the " @ " sign of one address, and the domain name after the " @ " sign of another address. (ie. name1 + name2 = name1) You can read more about it here - http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99728 There is a removal tool as well. I think it is the responsibility of everyone, especially those on public forums, to keep your virus scanners up to date! If you don't have virus detection installed, you can get it free at http://www.grisoft.com Blessings, - - - - - Janie Walk softly, Live gently ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. ~ Taisen Deshimaru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 Sue wrote: >Hi Peggy, >Seems your computer may have a virus in it and using your email >address book to send it out (hope I am wrong here). I have received >it twice now, luckily my virus protection found it before it could >get in (I hope!!) > > > > This does not come from my computer but someone who's system has the list in it's address book. some virus posts now are actually including parts of posts or files from peoples systems in an effort to trick people into opening them. Most of the new virus spoof addresses so they appear to come from a different address than the actual sender . The fact that the post has an attachment proves it did not come through CHW My posts to the group go through just as yours do. Any mail that really is from the CHW group will go through and will not have any attachments The list is set to strip out any attached files before sending them to the group. This list is also supposed to be a plain text group If you are on digests You will only get digests from CHW . I also have heavy duty up to date anti virus programs on my computer scanning all mail incoming and out going .I scanned again ( twice) and found nothing on my computer . I know it is very upsetting . I see now that I got that post too but of course my anti virus program stripped out any virus. I think someone may have collected the e-mail addresses of the list. You cannot hide them without losing many of the group functions unfortunately. Looking at the message source it appears that this may in fact be a deliberate attack. The from address is rosequartz @hotmail and I do not have a hotmail account in that name. It also appears to have originated in Australia. I did probably recently offend a ( probably psychotic) person who lives in AU who is infamous for attacking folks who they see as enemies by faking their address and disseminating virus in their name and other hacker activities . ( I am in favor of world peace though) I don't know that this is the person or cause of the problem but it is quite co-incidental that this should occur now. Please keep your anti virus programs up to date and active and do not open any attachments purporting to come from me or from this group . I normally post images and similar things on web pages and send a link rather than an attachment . Peggy -- http://www.solarraven.com Peggy Jentoft, Energy Work, Reiki, Crystals, Healing, Huna ,Deva & more http://home.attbi.com/~skygreen http://members.tripod.com/~sunsparrow/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 , Peggy J at rosequartz <rosequartz@a...> wrote: > hi i got it from an email in spanish fron reikisymbolnews so its allover out there. my norton caught it but this is a badie rainbows janet Sue wrote: > > >Hi Peggy, > >Seems your computer may have a virus in it and using your email > >address book to send it out (hope I am wrong here). I have received > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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