Watch the virus!
- Thread starter finn17
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Fizl
Secret Crocodile
I don\'t know about stateside, but anyone over in blighty needs to be careful if they are on Virgin.net or have any friends who are. Virgin have been hammered by it, and are warning peeps not to open any mails sent by them with attachments. This one does populate from address books, so keep an eye out everybody!
Shaz
Shaz
K
klute_in_the_valute
Guest
Not sure if its connected but when I logged onto cmon tonight I got loads of instant message pop ups and had real trouble for a while.I got things going and ran my virus checker to find Win32 blaster sitting nicely in the memory.File was mslaugh.exe.All sorted now but Ive never had a virus and Im not that clued up so as I said I dont know if its connected or If its what you guys are talking about.
Well, unfortunately...
We weren\'t able to track the virus that DennisMech got purporting to come from me. As both of us were clearly in the infected machine\'s address book it had to be someone from CMON.
So it continues to spread...
It is entirely possible that the infected person doesn\'t even know.
If you examine a suspicious email carefully you can find the point of origin, no matter who it says it is \'From\'. Sometimes this is helpful, sometimes not but it is always worth a try in case it is a friend who has the lurgy and doesn\'t know.
We weren\'t able to track the virus that DennisMech got purporting to come from me. As both of us were clearly in the infected machine\'s address book it had to be someone from CMON.
So it continues to spread...
It is entirely possible that the infected person doesn\'t even know.
If you examine a suspicious email carefully you can find the point of origin, no matter who it says it is \'From\'. Sometimes this is helpful, sometimes not but it is always worth a try in case it is a friend who has the lurgy and doesn\'t know.
Sorry but that\'s a common misconception.
Any POS hacker can create an email account with an existing name & address and send mail supposedly from the real person. Unless you have a specific electronic signature it is very difficult to protect yourself. My Team at work are currently investigating this very issue.
