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. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/