E-mail viruses
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E-mail viruses
I hope someone can answer my question. I have Norton Internet Security 2003 (I updated it this year to 2004). About 3 times a day I get e-mails from people I don't know saying "Here is the attatchement you wanted" or "here is your portfolio" and so on. Each one of these contains a virus that my Norton deletes. I block the sender immediately (my blocked list is probably nearing 200 at this point), but I always get another e-mail from someone different with a virus again. I can live with deleting them and so on, but I would rather not. I don't give my e-mail out to many places but evidently I gave it out to the wrong person at one time or another.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to rid myself of these?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to rid myself of these?
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There is a good chance that someone you know has an infected PC and they are totally unaware of that fact. Some worms have the potential to pick a random sender and recepiant out of the addy book on the infected PC and boom, off it goes. You can look at the properties of the infected email and see if you recognize the ISP or anything else that may help identify the person with the infected PC. I've had it happen a few times and in both cases I was able to track down the owner of the infected PC. There is no gurantee, but worth a try. You can also identify the worm/virus and read up on it to see if it has the potential to spread itself as I mentioned above.
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Do not open attacthments Unless you that they are comeing from someone you trust. there a lot of vermons out there that get there kicks by sending garbage like that. It cost folks a lot of money a year because of this. So do updates every week & scan for viruse twice a week. good Luck. 
Also try Mc Afee firewall it tracks offenders very easy.
Also try Mc Afee firewall it tracks offenders very easy.
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Originally Posted by mistercmk
A lot of times the spammers will make up random e-mails to send to as well. I use mailwasher to screen my email before it is even downloaded to the computer. I would reccoment it.
If Norton Virus Scan is set up properly it already scans all incoming & outgoing emails for harmful intrusions & fixes them as needed.
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Jay,
I suggest getting *Mailwasher* as it sorts all the mail for you.
Have it set for 5 minutes before your ISP send it directly to you.
Does you have dial-up or Broadband.
If you have broadband,get a hub so it will help keep unwanted people out of your computer.
I suggest getting *Mailwasher* as it sorts all the mail for you.
Have it set for 5 minutes before your ISP send it directly to you.
Does you have dial-up or Broadband.
If you have broadband,get a hub so it will help keep unwanted people out of your computer.
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My ISP, for a couple bucks a month, sends my email through Postini.com who scans viruses and filters out all the stinking spam. Well, most of it. The more filters, the harder the spammers work at it to get through to you. Recently I have also received numerous virus infected emails...all stopped at Postini... but I think in the last month, I have received more virus infected emails than I did all of the first 5 years I was on line. I've sent out warnings to everyone on my lists, to scan their machines, but it has done no good at all.
A friend also uses email washer or something similar, but all it filters is junk mail. As for the different virus scanners mentioned above... I think they are both owned by Symantec... so I don't see where there is that much of a difference. One, perhaps upgrades with new dat files maybe sooner?
As the viruses get worse, I'd scan my computer more often and check for windows and virus definition updates at least twice a week, minimum. But then again...I wouldn't be paranoid if they weren't out to get me.
A friend also uses email washer or something similar, but all it filters is junk mail. As for the different virus scanners mentioned above... I think they are both owned by Symantec... so I don't see where there is that much of a difference. One, perhaps upgrades with new dat files maybe sooner?
As the viruses get worse, I'd scan my computer more often and check for windows and virus definition updates at least twice a week, minimum. But then again...I wouldn't be paranoid if they weren't out to get me.
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Originally Posted by sglaine
Do not open attacthments Unless you that they are comeing from someone you trust
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I was just reading the other day about the latest strain of email viruses. The latest, bagelX or something like that WILL infect your system without opening any attachments. It is embedded within some HTML graphics, and the trick is you see NO graphics when you open this email. It comes with the usual subject line such as "here is the info you requested" and so forth. What I read also stated it appears to be a benign virus, poses a low threat to your system other than taking over and using your system to send itself on. I'll try to find the info on this and post it later.
If you have been keeping up on your updates for windows and outlook, you should be safe. This I read on Microsoft's website. Other thing is simply don't open any suspicious e-mails, even from names you might recognize.
On edit: TO read up on this variant, go to this site.
http://msn-cnet.com.com/2100-7355_3-...7&tag=msn_home
If you have been keeping up on your updates for windows and outlook, you should be safe. This I read on Microsoft's website. Other thing is simply don't open any suspicious e-mails, even from names you might recognize.
On edit: TO read up on this variant, go to this site.
http://msn-cnet.com.com/2100-7355_3-...7&tag=msn_home
Last edited by rikfish; Apr 11, 2004 at 08:52 PM.
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Well, Norton is erasing the body of the message and filing it in its "Quarantine" file. I have checked the properties but that is confusing. Any chance I can e-mail the properties to someone and they can decipher them? I have received 4 since I posted this originally. I deleted them before I read this thread though.
The solution I want is to find out how I am getting them and stop it. It's annoying because it jams up my e-mail.
The solution I want is to find out how I am getting them and stop it. It's annoying because it jams up my e-mail.
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The last time I was getting infected emails I looked at the properties and noted that the email was comming from an ISP on Whidbey Island, WA. I didn't recognize the sender name but I do have a buddy (and only one) that lives on Whidbey Island so I made a lil' phone call. I asked, "are you having any problems with your PC"? The answer was, yes, along with how his kid had done something and how he had tried to fix it but it still didn't seem right. I made a visit to symantec.com and I was able to talk him through the process of removing the worm.
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