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Topic: URGENT NOTICE - VIRUS AROUND
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spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-20-2003 02:45 AM
  
Beware of an e-mail that purport to come from contact@collectspace.com It is a virus acrrier. DO NOT OPEN IT. It asks you to open the attached file - usually an exe file that carries a virus or worm bug Luckily my anti virus caught it this morning . It it is just one of many of a similar style going around - most which seem to start Re' details. Phill
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-20-2003 04:21 AM
The virus did not come from contact@collectspace.com.collectSPACE runs off a Mac OS X server and is edited using a Mac OS X client, both unaffected by the Sobig virus which you have received. The virus grabs e-mail addresses from several different locations on a computer, including the Windows address book and Internet cache, and sends e-mails to each one. The virus also forges the source of the message using a randomly selected e-mail address so that the infected message appears to come from someone else -- hence the appearance it came from contact@collectspace.com You can read more about it here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html It is currently plaguing most of the space industry (I have literally received over 500 copies in the past 24 hours.) It appears that the virus is making its way through NASA as well... |
Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1255
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 08-20-2003 07:28 AM
Thank you for ID'ing the SoBig virus. I now understand why I am getting bombarded by emails with either "That movie," 'Details" or "Thank you" as their title.The virus protection had kicked in, so everything is ok, but I have been deleting mail like mad. ------------------
Larry McGlynn
A Tribute to Apollo |
Scott
Member Posts: 3307
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-20-2003 09:02 AM
This is the worst epidemic of email viruses I have ever seen. I usually do not get that many (maybe 1 a day on average) and I religiously update my McAfee Viruscan, but I am getting like 50 of these emails a day. This is way worse than many people think.Here's a story on it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16499-2003Aug19?language=printer |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-20-2003 09:08 AM
Scott, count your blessings -- 50 a day is nothing. In the past 24 hours I have received 500 messages with subject lines "RE: Details", "Thank You" and "That movie". Yesterday I spent more time deleting mail then I did answering it...But you're right -- I have never seen anything like this before... [This message has been edited by Robert Pearlman (edited August 20, 2003).] |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-20-2003 11:29 AM
Robert,
My company was overrun with the "Thank you" and "Details" emails. Our email server was down most of the day. It seemed to effect the PC users more than Mac users like myself. |
spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-20-2003 01:30 PM
To save time deleting these virus carrying emails one of my rules is to send ALL emails to the delete box . From there I just highlight the legitimate emails from people I know and subject I know (this after virus checking) .Just drag and drop in to Inbox for keeping these trusted good ones.All the rets are just deleted from the delete box . |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-20-2003 01:57 PM
The "good" thing about the Welchia virus is that it destroys the LovSan virus ...
There's ONLY 1 rule = Have an Updated Anti-Virus soft at ALL times Which one to use ? The best in my opinion : F-Secure !!! |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 08-20-2003 11:21 PM
Hi guys.Can I suggest to you a partial remedy for this scourge of unwanted e-mails. There is a free program called "Mailwasher" that you can download and it acts as filter between your ISP and your e-mail program. When you go online, you double click the mailwasher icon and it give you all the details of messages that would otherwise be ultimately bound for your inbox, with specifics on sender, title, size of messages etc etc. Operating within that program, you can then elect (other than accepting e-mails of course) to delete and / or bounce what you consider offending messages back to their source and prevent them being loaded into your e-mail application. Saves an awful lot of time, and the e-mails aren't loaded onto your HDD only then to be subsequently deleted. Only thing I don't know is whether there's a MAC version.
I've been using it for over 12 months and it's terrific. |
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