The Steel Guitar Forum

Yes, I've been hacked.
Fellow forumite and friend Steve Feldman was kind enough to point out that I have a self-sending virus. Thanks Steve, I appreciate the heads up. My computer fumigator is coming tomorrow.
b0b, a thousand apologies. I realize this is not the appropriate place to post this, but I was afraid my acquaintances would not catch it in the "computer" section. You can lock 'er up. No replies necessary.
-John

I opened my email from you before I looked at the forum. Now what???

John,,,,I think I got it from you,,,,I have rec your e mail and have a "virus" now ,,,,
Iam not positive it was from you however,,,but I got it bad and that aint good

Jody

John,

Do you have a relative named Gary?

I got an email a month or so ago from a Gary Steele.

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John Im itchy as hell and I have a high temperature as well,,,,I knew I should have quit this Forum while I was still ahead,,,

I think I could have got worse than the "virus" this is the time to say Goodbye
Little Darling.....Im outta here....for good.

I have webtv. It puked!

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought you could only get a virus if you opened an attachment from an email? I don't think reading email will download virus's. Those in the know speak up.

It looked fishy to me, so I didn't open the attachment. Practice safe hex - don't open attachments.

bOb....you are ultra conservative,,,,whats a "virus" between friends??

IM MOVIN THIS TO THE ER "frown" call 911

I knew better and did it anyway. OK- so far Norton doesn't recognize it - which one is it?

We had one of these a while ago where I work... this site gives *some* info on how to get rid of this type: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.loveletter.a.html

the attachment we got was called "very funny" - I just searched out and deleted any file with that name (search as veryfunny*.*)
had to do it a bunch of times but eventually they stopped coming back.
Disclaimer: I can deal with computers, and figure a lot of stuff out, but I KNOW NOTHING
Nick

John,,,yes I did get the "bug" from you I opened your mail to me re the Duke Elllington
thread,,,in answer to your question about Louis Jordan....it was after that ,,I got the "bug"

Will send you my doctors bill....You are always welcome to write...there is one guy on this Forum who has a bug up his "butt" all the time,,and that one cant be fixed.

This morning I received 3 copies of a virus from Russel Cole. Beware! My friend Sherm sent out the following email that describes it quite well: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>There is a new virus circulating through email today. It can show up with different subject lines, so there isn't an easy way to recognize it. So, just to be on the safe side:

DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS RECEIVED IN YOUR EMAIL IF THE MESSAGE APPEARS AS FOLLOWS:

Subject: [filename (random)]
Body: "Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice or I hope you can help me with this file that I senT" or "I hope you like the file that I send you" or "This is the file with the information that you ask for See you later. Thanks"

--- OR the same message may be received in Spanish ---
"Hola, como estas? Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista" or "Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando" or "Espero te guste este archivo que te mando" or "Este es el archivo con la información que me pediste. Nos vemos pronto, gracias."

IF YOU RECEIVE A MESSAGE LIKE THIS, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY...DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!!</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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<small><img align=right src="http://b0b.com/b0b.gif" width="64" height="64">Bobby Lee - email: quasar@b0b.com - gigs - CDs
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> Subject: Two new rampant viruses
>
>
> > Two new viruses are being widely distributed over the Internet. Neither
> > Norton anti-virus or McAfee will detect the viruses unless the virus
> tables
> > were updated after July 17th.
> >
> > I would estimate that during the past three weeks, the staff at
> > Internet-Duncan has helped clean viruses from a few hundred computers.
I
> > can not stress strongly enough the need for caution when dealing with
> e-mail
> > attachments!
> >
> > W32.Sircam.Worm@mm is the most rapidly spreading virus of the two new
> > viruses. It is transmitted as an e-mail attachment from infected
> machines.
> > The virus can delete files from the infected machine, and it can send
> > documents from the machine to other people on the Internet. The
messages
> > transmitting this virus will have random subject lines, but will
typically
> > have "Hi! How are you?" or "Hola como estas ?" as the first line of the
> > message and will have "See you later. Thanks" or "Nos vemos pronto,
> > gracias." at the end of the message. If you receive a message like
this,
> do
> > not click on the attachment! Instead, you should delete it immediately.
> >
> > The second new virus being widely is the CodeRed worm. The CodeRed worm
> > affects Microsoft Index Server 2.0 or the Windows 2000 Indexing service
on
> > Microsoft WinNT4.0 and Window 2000 systems running IIS 4.0 and 5.0 web
> > servers. The worm uses a known buffer overflow contained in IDQ.DLL.
> > Information and a patch regarding this vulnerability can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp
> >
> > This virus does not target typical home user systems, but rather systems
> > running web servers. The high distribution of this virus is due to the
> fact
> > that it does not require any action on the part of the user to infect
the
> > machine. Just having the server on-line can make it vulnerable!
> >
> > We have had reports of systems in Duncan being infected with these
viruses
> > this weekend. There are a multitude of viruses on the Internet. We
only
> > send special warnings about viruses when we believe there is an
> > exceptionally high risk for systems in our service area.
> >
> > The best advice I can offer regarding virus prevention is not to open
ANY
> > e-mail attachments unless you are confident of exactly what you are
> opening.
> > Virus protection programs such as Norton anti-virus and McAfee can
greatly
> > reduce the virus risk, but they can only detect viruses known to be in
> > existence at the time of the virus program's last update.

I have been getting that virus E mail that b0b mentioned about 2 times a day for the last few days. It comes from a different source everytime. I just delete it without opening the attachment and have had no problems.

Bob

Since I dont know about these things ,,here is a question...I run Norton Anti Virus and keep it updated etc...the other day I received an email "Snow White HaHa" I had been warned by my ISP to watch out for this.

It obviously infected my pc,,,,as I had three
notices of quarrantine,,,I went through the best i could to find what i did wrong..I did not open the attachement but I did click onto the incoming e mail in order to delete.

Now the status of my Norton Anti virus shows
"No virus'es for the past 2 days,,,Iam am unable to reach customer support at Norton does this mean I still have a virus in my system?? I have gone through every program I could to find the culprit,,,any suggestions?

Thanks

I've gotten the same messages Jody. I've tried forwarding the email to techsupport@norton and we'll see- it's not recognized yet but it's here lurking- my box is actin' up~ will post more when I get more info~ Jim

Thanks Jim ,,,I appreciate it I cannot get any help from Norton's tech support,,,

I got an email from John. I clicked on the basic message, not the attachment.(OUTLOOK EXPRESS). There was a different smaller screen that came up with the attachment icon at bottom, I think there was some text about some neat game and message board site. The attachment was some type of exe. file. It looked kinda fishy so I didn't click on the paperclip or the little box(icon) with exe. under it. What do I need to do now? With Outlook Express, I don't know how to delete it without highlighting it, which is what I've already done so I guess it doesn't matter at this point. Need some help.

Thanks,
Ken

Ken,,,,that is exactly what happened to me. I had to "highlight" the message not open the attachment,,,to delete it....but somehow got the virus,,,I highlighted in order to "delete"

I didnt open the attachment either.....but here Iam with a virus,,,,

was it a 'purple' virus?

Right click on the email in question to get the context menu, then select "Delete".

Also, you should change your email settings so that emails don't automatically preview when you click them. Set it so that you have to double-click to open an email. It's safer that way.

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