[muglo] Re: Do you still have my old address? (virus question)

Not quite the whole story...

Whilst you may not suffer any real damage from a virus, if it is the 
kind that uses your address book to mail itself to everyone, it can in 
fact propogate itself. You will notice your e-mail getting slower and 
slower (unless you use webmail) each time you pick up your mail as the 
virus is sending itself out.

I had one of these and until I managed to get it out of my system (it 
was buried in an Entourage sub-folder called "saved attachments") it 
was taking me almost 10-minutes to complete my mail pick-up each day. 
Add to that the many "thank-yous" I got from people I sent the virus 
to... you get he picture.

Garth.

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Hi Doug

Unless you forward an infected e-mail the PC virus cannot propagate on 
it's own from a Mac.   These viruses are executable programs that run 
on the PC but are unable to run in the Mac's OS.  What is happening 
more than likely is that your address is being spoofed as the return 
address by an infected PC.

Gerhard


On Monday, June 07, 2004, at 11:52AM, doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Hi. This is being sent to all the addresses in my address book.
>
> My old address 'samu@xxxxxxxxxx' continues to be used for transmission 
> of
> Viruses. It *may* yet be possible that someone still has that address 
> in
> their address book, and also has a Virus which is being spread.
>
> Most viruses trapped in my ISP's VirusGuard filter are sourced from
> overseas, Italy, mostly, but many are being returned from local
> businesses, and Ontario business, to the 'samu' address.
>
> I am asking again that you check that 1) my old address no longer 
> exists
> in your address books, and 2) that you be certain that your system is
> clean of viruses.
>
> Yes, Mac users, Microsoft email products *can* transmit PC viruses,
> though they do not affect your Mac OS. They might be a .vcf or .exe
> attachment.
>
> Removing my address ensures that it will no longer be used to spread
> viruses (which I would certainly favour), but won't stop the virus from
> using other addresses. PC users, please keep your Virus protection
> utility up to date.
>
>>                  <http://home.golden.net/~samu>                 <
>>   There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.  <
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