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Jayjay wrote:
Latest attack of virus.... Don't open or go for them. Well, duh! This account runs on a unix system and I read the mail there with pine. I have never, ever opened an attachment there. In fact, I rarely read mail there at all, since this is the account I use for usenet and is harvested regularly. In fact, that's the nature of this attack: every usenet address is bouncing back "my" forwarded message about microsoft internet updates. :-) The bitch of it is that they use so many different words, some of them common. I've had to put in three large filters: one for "to", one for "from" and one for "subjet". My email is taking longer to open by quite a lot now! Have fun wherever you are headed. The mid-atlantic coast. :-) Seriously, we're going to spend the week-end in the D.C. area. My FIL just called to say, "you're not really going, are you?" I replied, "We laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha!" Wendy |
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On 19 Sep 2003 12:08:30 -0400, Wendy Marsden
wrote: The mid-atlantic coast. :-) Seriously, we're going to spend the week-end in the D.C. area. My FIL just called to say, "you're not really going, are you?" I replied, "We laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha!" Wendy well - the "danger" is gone now... its just the cleanup. I haven't seen the news yet to see how bad the DC area got hit... So - here's hoping all is well and safe and you get to have fun. |
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ogers.com, cplus wrote: "Wendy Marsden" wrote in message ... Julianne wrote: Y'all have power? How is the storm? Wet. (And yes, I obviously have power.) It mostly avoided us. There was a huge crash on interstate 95 in southern CT this morning that was storm related - last I heard the cars had been at a standstill for 3 hours after three tractor trailers jack-knifed across all lanes. I've heard the winds are supposed to pick up this afternoon, though. BTW, I'm about to go out of town so I won't be online for a few days. I'm also having a serious email attack going on with this account right now - I'm putting filter after filter in after receiving 100's of emails yesterday, but they're still coming in. I don't know what lovely thing I did to deserve this. Is anyone else having it? I rarely read the email there but I'll soon hit quota at this rate and could conceivably lose my account. (I only have it as a favor - I graduated from Mt. Holyoke a million years ago.) Wendy Do you notice that most of them have the same subjects. I was getting all sorts of virus infected emails but they all said either attachment, your picture, your application.. etc. So I just went into my message rules (I use outlook) and I created a message that deletes any message with those particular words in the subject. Haven't received another since. I did this with "Thank You" and missed an entire thread on my SCD group but found it on a web site. Never had so many applications accepted in my life. Even macs fell victim to Sobig F. -- Diva ******** The computer is mightier than the pen or the sword |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:16:49 -0400, Carol Frilegh
wrote: I did this with "Thank You" and missed an entire thread on my SCD group but found it on a web site. Never had so many applications accepted in my life. Even macs fell victim to Sobig F. Just for clarification. receiving emails has nothing to do with what operating system you run on your computer. It has everything to do with how many people have your email address in their address book when they get infected. MAC users and Linix and other OS users are "affected" because of their email address being in other peoples address books, but they aren't "Infected" by the virus itself. |
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Ping Wendy
Jayjay wrote:
MAC users and Linix and other OS users are "affected" because of their email address being in other peoples address books, but they aren't "Infected" by the virus itself. It's my impression that they got my address off of usenet posts. I can see quite a lot of the addresses 'my mail' was bounced back from and they're from posters I recognize, but have never corresponded with via email. I don't care if I'm not spreading the infection, it's being damned hard to stamp out! Wendy |
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In article , Jayjay
wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:16:49 -0400, Carol Frilegh wrote: I did this with "Thank You" and missed an entire thread on my SCD group but found it on a web site. Never had so many applications accepted in my life. Even macs fell victim to Sobig F. Just for clarification. receiving emails has nothing to do with what operating system you run on your computer. It has everything to do with how many people have your email address in their address book when they get infected. MAC users and Linix and other OS users are "affected" because of their email address being in other peoples address books, but they aren't "Infected" by the virus itself. Yup, that's how it went! |
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In article , Wendy Marsden
wrote: Jayjay wrote: MAC users and Linix and other OS users are "affected" because of their email address being in other peoples address books, but they aren't "Infected" by the virus itself. It's my impression that they got my address off of usenet posts. I can see quite a lot of the addresses 'my mail' was bounced back from and they're from posters I recognize, but have never corresponded with via email. I don't care if I'm not spreading the infection, it's being damned hard to stamp out! Wendy Not likely. i don't even use my real address on Usenet. |
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On 19 Sep 2003 10:46:04 -0400, Wendy Marsden
wrote: Julianne wrote: BTW, I'm about to go out of town so I won't be online for a few days. I'm also having a serious email attack going on with this account right now - I'm putting filter after filter in after receiving 100's of emails yesterday, but they're still coming in. I don't know what lovely thing I did to deserve this. Is anyone else having it? I rarely read the email there but I'll soon hit quota at this rate and could conceivably lose my account. (I only have it as a favor - I graduated from Mt. Holyoke a million years ago.) I am getting all kinds of emails. I think it is some kind of virus. I won't open them I just delete them. Holyoke? Is that the area near Southwick Mass? I spent two months there this summer. I went to a large Rivercrossing Mall at a Holyoke. Monte |
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wendy,
i agree............................i use a YAHOO addy for my usenet newsgroups, and that is where the crap is going. -- read and post daily, it works! rosie http://www.moveon.org/ we face fear many times in life. sometimes it's an inner voice, warning us of danger. fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ................................hannah arendt "Wendy Marsden" wrote in message ... Jayjay wrote: MAC users and Linix and other OS users are "affected" because of their email address being in other peoples address books, but they aren't "Infected" by the virus itself. It's my impression that they got my address off of usenet posts. I can see quite a lot of the addresses 'my mail' was bounced back from and they're from posters I recognize, but have never corresponded with via email. I don't care if I'm not spreading the infection, it's being damned hard to stamp out! Wendy |
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