Rita,
Sorry your mom isn't feeling well!
About how worms/viri are transmitted... There are several ways. The most
common are via attachments; but, some people have become quite sly with some
of their worms/viri and have imbedded them into the actual message if it's
in HTML format; and, still others are passed from person to person after one
of the people gets the attachment, and it spreads not only to those
currently in their address book; but, also to every message from the person
who's machine is infected via their signature (*if* their signature is in
HTML format). I guess the "smart" thing to do is to set your e-mail to
receive all messages in "plain text only"; but, life is short; and, I like
receiving HTML formatted messages... :) So, I just hope that my virus
scanners are doing their job; and, let it go at that...
Hope this helps...
~Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: * informant * Worm or VBS Scripts
Jay
Thanks for your comments. I am not certain what actually happened here. The
day after I detected what I thought was a virus, I received two more
warnings that I had been infected. The viruses warning was on the screen and
each one had a different extension .. ie a, b, c etc. As if they were in
alphabetical order.
I deleted InoculateIT thinking it was deleting good files. It was late, I
was tired. I could not delete all of InoculateIT and then I began getting
alerts at bootup that the computer could not find specific virus.dat files.
Sure, because I had deleted them! Duh! Dumb me.
I then went into the registry and deleted what I assumed was all traces of
InoculateIT. I must have really screwed up because after that I no longer
could get a clean copy of my registry.
Actually it did me a favor. My registry was heavy with 2 1/2 years of
hardware changes, updates and so on. Because my life is complicated I am
giving it to the fellow who installed the network. I now believe I was in
error in assuming it was his software. He uses it often during the day at
his job so I doubt it was infected.
If I had a worm does it come as an attachment? I received no attachments so
I cannot figure out where I got it from. I don't think I really know how a
worm acts aside from emailing everyone in my address book and that did not
happen.
I will use my husbands computer and let our friend format for me. My mom is
ill and I care for her and life is complicated to take the time to do it
myself.
Any comments will be appreciated. I need to learn from this.
Rita
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