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Happy Virus Day!
Cheese! I bet I've gotten a dozen viruses today alone.
I thought my two A/V's were stopping them. (I use Norton and AVG, both of which are up-to-date.) But I received a "email not delivered" message about a "Re: Thank You" email coming from my computer, to an address that is not even in my address book. If anyone got anything from me (wasions@etc.), I want to apologise in advance, but please PM me here and tell me what it is so I can deal with it. I'm not getting back into Outlook until I find out what's the deal.
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Steve '95 Polo Green SVX L AWD, 188K - "Kermit" (Gone, but not forgotten) '02 Outback LLBean, 56K '02 Black Sapphire Volvo V40, 133K - "Shadowfax" '06 Triumph Tiger, 19K '99 Suzuki DR350SE, 8.5K - "Geezer Killer" <*}}}}>< ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ><{{{{*> |
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It was probably the new kles/weber variant.
I received 9 copies of that virus yesterday. It takes names from your address book and uses them as the from address for sending itself out to the entire address book. So it wasn't you that was infected, but someone who had you in their address book. I had messages with address from various senators, media companies (the kind that own TV and Radio stations), and other government agencies, so I can't figure out who had me in their address book. Maybe the CIA? Doug
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1992 LS Touring (6/91) - Currently undergoing a five speed swap Black over Claret with spoiler; 235,000 miles; Mods: 2002 Legacy 5 speed, ACT Pressure Plate, Excedy Clutch, Short Throw Shifter, Aussie Powerchip 1992 LS Touring (6/91) Black over Claret with 2.5" setback spoiler; 202,000 miles; Mods: B&M Cooler 1994 LSi (4/93) Bordeaux Pearl; 198,000 miles; Mods: Weight reduction. 1969 Mustang GT Convertible 1970 Mustang Convertible 2000 Ford Excursion Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua. My Locker |
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we have it here at work. I came in this morning with over 1000 emails that were all viruses .
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I did a full system scan, and came up clean (rah!). Opened up Outlook again and received six more. No wonder the internet is so slow today with all this crud floating around.
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Steve '95 Polo Green SVX L AWD, 188K - "Kermit" (Gone, but not forgotten) '02 Outback LLBean, 56K '02 Black Sapphire Volvo V40, 133K - "Shadowfax" '06 Triumph Tiger, 19K '99 Suzuki DR350SE, 8.5K - "Geezer Killer" <*}}}}>< ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ><{{{{*> |
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I've got Norton (ick) catching viruses left and right.
Do you have the msblast update?
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"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." '92 Dark Teal SVX LS-L, >146,000m 3 pedals, 5 speeds., restoration underway. 2012 Honda Insight, slow but cute. |
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Happy not to be on anyones "A" list.
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92 SVX #772 140k 6speed, ECU Tune stage II, Koni/Ground control, 3,270lbs. 91 Legacy Turbo 5spd. FMIC, crappy stock turbo, ACT clutch. 78 BRAT (New toy) (Soon to be EJ22T powered) 90 240 SX. RB25 powered!! DRIFT!!!111!!! (GF's car) To many cars to spend time on teh web! |
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My defense?
WINDOWS 95!!!!!!! Bwahahahahahaha!!! Ron (steam powered 'puter).
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Good s**t happened. 69 was worth the wait. '92 stock semi-pristine ebony - 160K '96 Grand Caravan - 240K '01 Miata SE - 79K '07 Chrysler Pacifica - 60k - future money pit. |
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The best defense of all......An old computer thats too stupid to catch a virus. I heard about the MSBlast worm a few weeks before it hit hard from the owner of another message board I frequent. He made an announcement about it, and provided a link to the patch. Now my computer is immune. I also never caught the Sobig virus either. There's somethin to say for not opening e-mail attachments and not keeping an address book.....
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2008 Mazdaspeed3 GT 1985 Toyota MR2 (10 yr project) Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. -George Carlin |
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Yepp. My addressbook is in my PDA and in my AutoPC. Worst case, a simple format will do the job. So I am not too worried about it.
L
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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Not that I'v had any problems lately, but what is the Sobig virus and wha tare the symtoms? I have been getting alot of weird E mails lately from some wierd named person with and E mail title that doesn't make any sense. I just deleat them right away, I assume thats the right thing to do?
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92 SVX #772 140k 6speed, ECU Tune stage II, Koni/Ground control, 3,270lbs. 91 Legacy Turbo 5spd. FMIC, crappy stock turbo, ACT clutch. 78 BRAT (New toy) (Soon to be EJ22T powered) 90 240 SX. RB25 powered!! DRIFT!!!111!!! (GF's car) To many cars to spend time on teh web! |
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Info on Sobig here
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