For some reason, 2 of my other postings on viruses aren't coming through, so I'm posting this again.:
Have not received the virus from the list, but I received the Trojan Badtrans virus from an email exchange with Gil DiSanto offlist a few days ago when I was signing him up for the GLN. The virus sends itself from a person whose address you know (not like the hahaha Snowhite and 7 Dwarfs one which is from the sender "Hahaha") . Because he had sent me his personal info, I opened the 2nd email from him thinking it was safe (that's why it's a "buddylist" type virus- it comes from someone you know- I then emailed him and he said McAfee had just detected a virus). The virus is designed to duplicate a sender's message and send it with the same subject line from the same sender, but with the "humor.exe" attachment and a line saying something like have a look at the attachment. If you try to open it, it will say "file is corrupt", but you've downloaded the virus. After Joanne said she suspected a virus because her emails were duplicating, I had my computer scanned by Trend Micro (online service) and it said 3 files had the Trojan Badtrans virus. It rated it's destruction as medium. (I take that to mean it's akin to having your house wrapped by teenagers- it doens't wipe out your hard drive or anything, but there is suspicion that someone somewhere can get your banking info from it...if that's the case, they'll be sadly disappointed at what they find in my acct.). After backing up important files, I then went to McAfee online, and found instructions for removing this particular virus, did them, and then ran another scan at Trend Micro and 1 file is still coming up infected, but it's not operating because I removed it from "run" . Still working on it. If this message duplicates itself, please let me know, and DON'T OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS like I did. I know better. Did it anyway. Shame on me. ----- Original Message ----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gage Tarrant" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: Re: CS>VIRUS of the MIND > Joanne- just go to Trend Micro Systems > http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp and run a check on > your computer- it'll identify the virus and the specific files infected so > you know what you're doing. Write down all the infected files it lists, > then go to McAfee for instructions on how to remove it. Trend also lists > instructions, but theirs didn't work for me, but they might for you. This > is doable, so don't worry. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "michael murray" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:34 AM > Subject: CS>VIRUS of the MIND > > > > Dear Joanne: > > > > This is not your fault. From what I've read here, it looks like an > > agency has visited your computer because of the 700 or so Chemtrail > > posts that arrived on your hosting of off-topic list. Most likely you > > will need to find the warranty and send in for a replacement/repair. > > > > I hope that the information becomes effective in our survival. I hear > > that you are now unable to access those posts from the archive. I wish > > that we could have made a consolidated backup of those posts for future > > referenceing. Thank you Joanne for your cooperation. > > > > Regards, > > Michael > > > > > > --- Joanne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Lynda...not sure what list you are on because all my messages just > > > say they are from me and don't say who they are from. I am assuming > > > you are on the silver list. My son has been here most of the day > > > trying to fix this thing. For some reason Norton did not want to > > > delete them.\My apologies to everyone.....I have not sent out any > > > attachments nor have I opened any so I don't know how this > > > happened... > > > We are working on it but Dave just quit on me for now..he needed a > > > break.... > > > .Again my apologies to all > > > Joanne > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > >
