Got an email with a virus attached to it. Probably the same damn bonehead the f'd up the site. He tried sending me a zip file with the virus W32.Netsky.Z@mm. The stupid idiot also doesn't realize that when you send a virus to a yahoo account it recognizes it and won't let you download it. Truly an amateur. He must have a list of our email addresses so beware of turbomk3@yahoo.com
Beware of turbomk3@yahoo.com
- Thread starter huntin5L
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This could also be something as innocent as someone having a virus on their computer sending out emails without their knowledge, but thanks for the heads up!
speaking of amateur, look into how modern viri work and you'll understand how you can get viri from people you do/don't know w/o them doing a dang thing or even being infected....
i doubt its that dude's fault. i got several emails from several different members of the old SM containing the same virus. one of them was even 'sent' from an administrator. its probably just the way the virus works...
-shaeff
-shaeff
you are right. The virus attaches itself to word documents without your knowledge. Just beware, the email address is actually from a SP member i believe so somebody is screwing with him. Just make sure you scan attachments from this address and you will be fine.
ugh.
you get a virus.
it finds ALL the email addresses on your computer.
it then sends itself to every possible combo of those email addresses.
that's how you get viri.....99.3% of the time it's not people being malicious, etc. just ignorant and unprotected. heck, i've even gotten viri sent to me from myself (no viri problems here either---> MAC!)!
you get a virus.
it finds ALL the email addresses on your computer.
it then sends itself to every possible combo of those email addresses.
that's how you get viri.....99.3% of the time it's not people being malicious, etc. just ignorant and unprotected. heck, i've even gotten viri sent to me from myself (no viri problems here either---> MAC!)!
I don't have the virus i know what virus that is ive dealt with it before fixing someone elses computer. Yes, people send viruses without there knowledge 99 percent of the time and that is why i use yahoo. Scans attachments automatically and won't let you download them anyway so that solves that.
To add to the good doctor's diagnosis...
Any halfway intelligent virus doesn't tell the truth about where it is coming from. So, after it infects your computer and starts sending emails to every email address it can find, it also lies about where it's coming from, sending them 'from' every email address you have in your computer as well.
Otherwise, people could do exactly what huntin5L was trying to do - blacklist a specific source, and the virus would be effectively quarantined.
Any halfway intelligent virus doesn't tell the truth about where it is coming from. So, after it infects your computer and starts sending emails to every email address it can find, it also lies about where it's coming from, sending them 'from' every email address you have in your computer as well.
Otherwise, people could do exactly what huntin5L was trying to do - blacklist a specific source, and the virus would be effectively quarantined.
I actually got an email with a virus from my own email acct. Being a former network administrator I am totally anal about my own systems and can guarantee 10000% that I do not have any viruses on any system on my network.
C:\>ping ckanderson
Pinging ckanderson.please.ban.me.net [192.168.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\>
Pinging ckanderson.please.ban.me.net [192.168.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\>
<nothing but the sound of my servers in the background merrily updating themselves and deleting any virus that comes their way>
