VIRUS ALERT! DELETE MY MAIL!
Thursday, April 1, 2004 by Styl-X Design | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
If you have received any mail from me, please it. (last hour.) I just got a virus because I opened a file in my email box. (No I am not a complete noob it just is that I got a link from my ISP saying: Your email couldn't be forwarded, read it here...)
So sorry again. I have my machine offline now and will fix it ASAP.
So sorry again. I have my machine offline now and will fix it ASAP.
MGiff
Reply #3 Thursday, April 1, 2004 6:10 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, April 1, 2004 6:10 PM
Jeeze. I am constantly getting those emails when I don't even send one. I'll know now not to open.
Sput
Reply #4 Thursday, April 1, 2004 9:11 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, April 1, 2004 9:11 PM
If it's mydoom then chances are that anyone who got it sent from you wouldn't see you as the sender, so your advice wouldn't have helped...nice to try though.
Sput offers advice to everyone: never open attachements of any type from anyone unless you have a very good reason to expect it and the e-mail is very clearly from the right person and relates to the attachement. Even then, open it carefully - giving a good virus scanner a chance to look at it, and NEVER open anything which can execute code on your machine no matter who it's from, or how cool you think it might be. Also, run a good firewall, apply all service packs and security updates fairly promptly even if it does tie up your modem for 3 hours to download them.
Sput offers advice to everyone: never open attachements of any type from anyone unless you have a very good reason to expect it and the e-mail is very clearly from the right person and relates to the attachement. Even then, open it carefully - giving a good virus scanner a chance to look at it, and NEVER open anything which can execute code on your machine no matter who it's from, or how cool you think it might be. Also, run a good firewall, apply all service packs and security updates fairly promptly even if it does tie up your modem for 3 hours to download them.
Sput
Reply #6 Friday, April 2, 2004 1:20 PM
Reply #6 Friday, April 2, 2004 1:20 PM
DesignCaddy - but of course, norton will only protect you from things it knows about (OK, and some it doesn't), and since a lot of virus/worms spread to millions of people in a matter of hours now, this is not adequate protection on it's own if people don't take sensible precautions - often refered to as practicing safe hex...
Orion
Reply #7 Saturday, April 3, 2004 6:51 PM
Being and enterprise antivirus admin, I agree with you. However, in this case, the most recent MyDoom variant is a month old...with the original discovered back in late January. There's just no excuse for having defs that far out of date.
Reply #7 Saturday, April 3, 2004 6:51 PM
| #6 by Skinner Sput - 4/2/2004 1:20:20 PM DesignCaddy - but of course, norton will only protect you from things it knows about (OK, and some it doesn't), and since a lot of virus/worms spread to millions of people in a matter of hours now, this is not adequate protection on it's own if people don't take sensible precautions - often refered to as practicing safe hex... |
Being and enterprise antivirus admin, I agree with you. However, in this case, the most recent MyDoom variant is a month old...with the original discovered back in late January. There's just no excuse for having defs that far out of date.
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 1, 2004 3:08 PM