WARNING! It has come to my attention that somebody is/has been sending around an email-worm (virus) to some members of this forum using my email address. Please be aware that I never send members emails, unless it's in response to an email sent to me (and most of the time I don't even have time to answers those ).

If you receive such an email, please forward them to me. I have a pretty good idea who it is and fortunately, knowingly spreading viri is still a federal offence.

Is this an easily identifiable virus? Something that Nortons will quickly pick up? Guess I should update my anti virus profiles, huh?

I haven't gotten anything yet, but I will let you know if I do. I hope you get them, Cliff.

Funny,,, I just updated my antivirus yesterday....

This kind of thing is why,,,,

Always set windows explorer to show all file type and extensions.

Always set outlook to the restricted security zone.

Always disable everything that isn't already disabled in the restricted zone.

Even then don't run attachments I'm not expecting.

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[This message has been edited by theogre (edited 04-15-2002).]

Thanks for the heads up Cliff!!

But Cliff, after all, they must have a right to spread them....

Thanks for the heads up! Will be on the lookout.

Wasn't me. But I have been getting one lately from a "Bo Bailey" with "EQUIPLIST" as the subject, not to mention several other sources for awhile now. The one from Bo Bailey has a document attached that has the sircam virus.

I don't get them at home though and I know of only one individual here on the forum that had corresponded with me here at my work email only but never at my home email. Wonder if they are related.

Anyways, too bad I have Norton AntiVirus which catches the little goobers before they can effect me.

Thanks for the heads up Cliff! I am guessing the suspect has proven to the forum many times to lack class, ann now it sounds like this person is proving a lack of brains too.

funny you mention that, several weeks ago i upgraded my hardrive and installed win 2000 server. within 4 days after getting my dsl modem up and running, i was hit with calls and emails from my isp about broadcasting nimda virus.

man what a blasted mess! it took me over a week to get that thing cleaned up. now i'm running zonealarm pro.

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I have not got any worms but, I am sick of spam from fake yahoo members. I forward them to yahoo and they say the accounts don't exist. I have been using that spam cop thing but I don't know if it is working. I don't understand how they can use someone elses address? There must be a way to trace there IP. I hope you catch and prosecute them cliff.

Ok, I have identified the virus that is being sent around. It's Worm KLEG.G (click for more info).

The worm simply picks a random email address out of your address book and uses that as the sender's email address. This means that nobody is using my email address on purpose, it was simply chosen at random by the email worm.

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It is happening to me too. I just looked and I have a bunch stuff that is screwy. I have about 20 mail undeliverable messeges and I sent no mail out.

Cliff, I recieved what I beleve to be a email virus, came from "Fiero64" and it included 2 files, one had petrol.jpg and the other file was wi.scr

I forgot you wanted them and deleted the msg. anything I can do to help?

quote Originally posted by Back On Holiday: Cliff, I recieved what I beleve to be a email virus, came from "Fiero64" and it included 2 files, one had petrol.jpg and the other file was wi.scr I forgot you wanted them and deleted the msg. anything I can do to help?

Yep, I am Fiero64. Cliff should I forward anything to you the message I got it from? Can they be traced?

It seems things snowballed. I guess one member had this virus and (probably unknowingly) sent it out to others in his address book.

well i'm clean.

whew!

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hoop
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I just cleaned it out, I hope I didn't spread it to too many people.

That's a pretty sophisticated worm!

I can't help but respect the guy who wrote that... Not that I wouldn't leap at the chance to string him up by the tenders...

I tells ya, it's only a matter of time before viruses that cause PHYSICAL damage to systems start becoming widespread...

quote Originally posted by 88CoupeV6: I just cleaned it out, I hope I didn't spread it to too many people.

nope, no hard feelings here. crap happens.

Cliff, thanks for the heads up.

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Whomever contact@dcmotorsports just tried to send it to me My firewall caught it so I'm okay just wanted to try to let someone know they may want to check their computer.

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Shouldn't affect web-based email, right? I have always used yahoo mail, and I'm sure that I've gotten virii, but since I am only opening a page to view and not actually downloading a message to my machine, I seem to avoid some of these things.

WinXP (home) has a built in firewall, doesn't it?

there have been several emails sent with my address on it as well, but they're from someone I've never dealt with before, so I don't know how or why my email address would have been in their address book...

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