[lace] Re. not lace-irritating mails
Ilske and Ann-Marie posted about e-mails with attachments and undeliverable messages they never sent. This is, of course, caused by a virus, which they can do nothing about (other than trashing the attachments without opening them). There has been a rash of them recently. What apparently happens is that someone on the list foolishly opens a virus attachment which, if she is on Windows (they don't work on Macs), grabs her list of mail addresses (perhaps it even gets the addresses of people that have posted to the list - I haven't checked the details). Anyway, the net results are twofold: (i) E-mails with virus attachments are sent to your address if your 'lace-friend' has it in her address book. (ii) E-mails with virus attachments are sent to other addresses, purporting to come from you. If these are detected as having a virus you gett an 'undeliverable mail' message from the intended recipient's mail host, about a message you know nothing about. Most of the ones we get are to Jean, but I get some Italian ones, which I suspect result from a correspondence I once had about databases with an Italian lacemaker. Whether these messages will go on for ever, I do not know, but I don't think there is anything you can do about them (especially the undeliverables) other than getting a spam/virus filter (and I don't know whether that will filter the 'undeliverable mail' messages). David PS Most of the virus attachments have names like message.scr, password.exe, and things ending in .pif, but some have lace-related names. They are all the same size and the same thing. -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re. not lace-irritating mails
Hello "I" have been sending strange mails. At least someone in Finland that has my email-address in the addressbook has. I sent ont of the messages that appeard on one list to "my" support and they saw that the mail that were sent from me originated from someone in Finland. It is very strange how computer and viruses can act. The Finland computer had a virus that sent out virus-mails with the addresses in her (I guess it is a her :-)) as senders. Maybe that has happend to more members of the lists. I also get mails with viruses from another address in Sweden. And I don´t know how to get rid of it either as I don´t know who in Finland are sending those mails. Yours Ann-Marie http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1 > Hallo Lacefriends, > Coming back from the congress of Deutscher Klöppelverband I found in my > mail-box some strange mails. Often saying failed messages. Some of them > have adresses from people who are on the list others have adresses I > never saw before. Since yesterday I get some only with the picture of > Jean Leader's website. > Does anybody of you get such mails too and does anybody have an > explanation for this? > Greetings > Ilske from today sunny Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re. not lace-irritating mails
Hallo Lacefriends, Coming back from the congress of Deutscher Klöppelverband I found in my mail-box some strange mails. Often saying failed messages. Some of them have adresses from people who are on the list others have adresses I never saw before. Since yesterday I get some only with the picture of Jean Leader's website. Does anybody of you get such mails too and does anybody have an explanation for this? Greetings Ilske from today sunny Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
