-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Norton 2005
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 07:20:39 -0500
Hi Judith
Worms can be transmitted many different ways.
One way, that is not addressed or publicized to often, is that a worm can be
placed on an Internet router and messages that come through that router can
get infected. The worm may randomly load itself on to messages but not ever
one. In any case, it looks to the recipient like it came from you. Even
though it is causing you a headache, I think the people that notified you
are good people trying to make things better.
I am also assuming that you have the latest up date for your Norton's. Yes
it is possible that Norton's and other anti virus program's could give a
false positive, the probability would not be that good I am thinking. Unless
it is a new worm.
Did the email(s) notifying you of the worm's name? If so you could do a
search. If they did not supply a name to you, I suggest you email them back
and thank them for notifying you and tell them that you have run a check on
your system(s) and found nothing. Ask them if they have the name for the
worm so you can do a check. You could also ask them if they got the worm
with this email too? Might get them thinking. In addition, you might want to
go to other anti virus companies that provide a free check of your system
(Panda for instance) and run that. Include that in your reply email too.
This will show the people that you are very responsible about situations
like this and it will do some damage control.
Are you doing your own web site hosting or is a web site service doing the
hosting? If the latter, you might send them a copy of the emails you got and
explaining to them the steps that you have gone through to check your system
and the results, asking them to check their systems. If you are doing the
hosting and have your puter on 24/7, I suggest you have it check Norton's
for updates every few hours or at max every 4 hours 24/7. Another suggest,
you might post on your web site that you check your system on a regular
basis.
It is sad that this happens for the sick entertainment of a few people, but
that is the world and morality we live in.
Hope this is of some help and comfort to you.
Life is what happens in between plans.
Virus free email by Norton's
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith" <jtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:37 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Norton 2005
> I read what you sent but it can't apply in this case.
>
> The man who emailed me said he got it from my site. I checked
> and I have no such problem. How come he said Norton 2005 told
> him I have a worm if he only clicked on my site URL from my
> email..
>
> My email does not have a worm virus nor does my computer. And,
> my site sure as heck can't with the hosting server I have.
>
> Is there a bug in Norton 2005 that a java script would affect?
>
>
> Judith
> http://www.agoodread.com
> Sharing is the key to all our $uccess!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:25 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Norton 2005
>
>
> Hi Judith
>
> What is a Worm Virus?
> A worm is a program that replicates and scatters itself from one
> media to
> another automatically. It may copy itself from one hard drive to
> another or
> distribute itself through email. A worm virus can corrupt a
> computer's data
> and compromise the security of the computer. The worm most
> commonly arrives
> when a user clicks on an infected email.
>
> Here are a few Google hits out of 489, from asking what is a
> worm virus.
> Some may wrap.
>
>
http://tdstelecomhelp.tds.net/cgi-bin/tdstelecom.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=pB66u5Hh&p_lva=&p_faqid=317&p_created=1022095413&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTgmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT0zJnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9NSZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPTYyJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=
>
> http://www.dakotacom.net/support/viruses.php
>
> http://www.conduce.net/articles-layout-new.asp?articleid=2
>
> Life is what happens in between plans.
>
>
>
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