Sure would be nice if everyone just put a bogus address book entry, that wound up first on the list, in their address books. That would stop these awful mass mailings in a flash! The sophisticated virus chooses randomly from the address book and some do not bother with the address book but look for addresses in your inbox and or sent box. With such viruses, it is a myth that if you do not open attachments you will not get a virus. If you have a email program that allows headers to generate popups you can get a virus just by viewing an infected email. It doesn't even have to have an attachment. It gets worse than that in special cases but not to worry if you have ISP email filters. My ISP will hold email with suspicious html and octet streaming (whatever that is) code. I can view the email on their site far away from my machine. I wish it would hold email with pop up generating headers but maybe I can request that. It is also a myth that anti virus software will remove any virus from your system. After some viruses change your registry you or a technician must check for changes and delete them yourself. The major anti virus people have detailed instructions on their web site on how to do this. The best place is the email software website as they are quick to put out particulars relating to their different versions. ---rm ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:24 PM Subject: Re: OT Virus Sure would be nice if everyone just put a bogus address book entry, that wound up first on the list, in their address books. That would stop these awful mass mailings in a flash! Greg Newell At 10:09 PM 6/23/2003, you wrote: >Hi all, > >Yikes! This one's pretty nasty. It mass-mails people's sensitive info >(e.g. passwords, financial data, etc.) all over the Internet! It also >records keystrokes and sends them to the author, and it allows the author >access to your computer to do as he wishes with it. EEeeeegh! Here's the >full description. > >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbe ar.b@mm.htm >l > >For those of you with Norton Antivirus, the definition was apparently >released June 5. If you click on NAV's status, you can see the dates of >your last definition download. If it was after the 5th, you are protected. >If NAV has done a system scan since your last definitions download, that >means you're probably fine. (My system checks OK, FAIW -- but one of our >friends has a *serious* security problem and needs to change a lot of >passwords and account info pronto!) > >Peace, >Sarah > >
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