I am starting to get lots of virus at my home address which is strange since my public address is the hotmail one you see here. In the past two hours, I've received four emails with bugs in them. I have yet to receive a virus email at my hotmail address, but I am getting them at my home address. The virus harvest people's addresses from the recipients address book, and then mails out the virus to those folks. That means if I am in some one's address, it will be copied and others will receive a virus email from me, even though I didn't send it out. What I am requesting is that obviously the net is experiencing a higher than average virus attack. I would request all forum members purge their address's in outlook express, keeping those which they only use frequently. And especially purge the email address's of forum members. Last year at this time, I received about 4 emails a day for about a month of the Klez virus, harvesting emails and forwarding them to other people. So its time for a New Year's cleaning of your rarely used email addresses. Also don't forget to update your virus definitions.
Rick- I don't open any unsolicited attachment. And those incoming from sources I know, are still exposed to a virus scan. Going one step further- I do not keep an address book in any e-mail program. I use a simple spread sheet on an old floppy disk. On Trainboard, no address is listed in my Profile. Anyone can contact me via a Private Message, and then we can go from that point. None of the above will prevent 100% of problems. But it keeps them to a minimum. Boxcab E50
What kind of caught me by surprise was a "delivery failure notification" on the couple I got. So it looked like emails I had sent out had not been delivered. This immediately made me suspicious as I knew I hadn't sent any emails out from my home email address for some time now. So I immediately forwarded them to my hotmail account which I opened for forum use. I find hotmail's email virus scanner is very good and always up to date, almost to the hour. So any email with attachment goes to the hotmail account. My Outlook Express won't let me open any attachments anyway. So if some one were to send me an attachment, I have to send it to hotmail before I can open it. And hotmail will tell me if the attachment contains a virus. All four I received today had the new worm embedded in it.
I received two first thing this morning. Both came in under the subject "TEST." My email is through Yahoo. Starting today, they are automatically rejecting all mails using the subject titles associated with this virus. So no more have come in. Boxcab E50
I use two different Virus Protection programs, one is NORTON's and the other is AVG. I used to rely on Norton's for all virus detection and deletion, but after Norton's missed that earlier worm, which infected my computer, I have upgraded to AVG which has caught all attempts to infect my computer since then. I am still a little pissed off at Norton's for missing that early worm. The worm should not have gotten past Norton's!!! For a good website go to www.84online.com. This site is from WHAS 840 AM radio in Louisville Kentucky. The site has all kinds of links to very good virus protection, spyware protection programs, and most will give you a FREE download.
