[muglo] Re: Do you still have my old address? (virus question)
- From: "Eric D" <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:17:43 -0400
A few questions about your setup Garth.
What were you running?
OS? 8.x, 9.0.x, 10.0.x, 10.1.x, 10.2.x, 10.3.x, Classic
E-mail app? Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0.x (which .x?) MS Entourage
98/2001/X. Netscape 4.x/6.x/7.x?
And, most important of all, DO YOU STILL HAVE A COPY OF THE VIRUS? I'd love
to have a copy to see how it works. (in 20 years of Mac use I've also never
encountered a Mac virus capable of self-propagation by e-mail... for that
matter, the last time a Mac of mine has been infected was in 1988/1989 when
Erik Sea was still running his pre-First Class BBS. I downloaded a fun
little game that was infected with the MDEF B virus IIRC... had to use
ResEdit to remove the resource from the System (or was it the Finder?) which
had been infected).
Eric.
>From: Garth Phillips <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [muglo] Re: Do you still have my old address? (virus question)
>Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:42:08 -0400
>
>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.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>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.
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