Update your virus definitions!!
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 by grayhaze | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Remember that virus that went around a while ago, when I complained about getting a lot of e-mails containing the virus? Well today I received well over 100 e-mails with the subjects 'Re: Details', 'Re: Approved', 'Re: Your Details', 'Re: My Details', and every other variation under the sun from someone who's clearly infected with this virus and has a huge e-mail address book for the virus to play with.
Among the other addresses in this person's address book are many users of this site, which leads me to believe that it's someone here. So please can everyone make sure that they have up-to-date virus checking enabled on their machines and that they remove my e-mail address from their address book? For someone like me who's still using a 56k modem it just destroys my internet connection to have to receive all this pointless crap every day.
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Among the other addresses in this person's address book are many users of this site, which leads me to believe that it's someone here. So please can everyone make sure that they have up-to-date virus checking enabled on their machines and that they remove my e-mail address from their address book? For someone like me who's still using a 56k modem it just destroys my internet connection to have to receive all this pointless crap every day.
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Hell Dragon
Reply #22 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:00 AM
Reply #22 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:00 AM
Guys... this virus isn't just using the address book of an infected machine to send out the emails.
It ALSO uses the internet temp cache on the machine - so it will scan for emails within the temp files of recent web pages that the infected machine has visited.
This means that anyone with a website or visible public email address on the net is going to get even more mails sent to them.
It ALSO uses the internet temp cache on the machine - so it will scan for emails within the temp files of recent web pages that the infected machine has visited.
This means that anyone with a website or visible public email address on the net is going to get even more mails sent to them.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:19 PM
ok fine?