My service provider has a spam and virus filter...it keeps all suspicious email (read email I didn't approve of the sender of) on a server...once a month I clean it out and rescue any wayward messages truly meant for me from you guys, but I never get the viruses anymore. :) Jim
At 12:28 AM 9/4/03 -0600, Fred Hunter wrote: >Well folks, I hate to even bring it up, but seems it's getting bad >lately. > >I'm talking about the news of some wide-spread viri going around. And >they're apparently here, on this list, too: > >How many of you have been receiving lots of spam in the past 72 hours >with the subject: "Details"; "My Details"; "Your Details"; "Thanks!", >"Thank You!"; "About your request"; "That movie"; and "Wicked >screensaver"? > >I've been deluged with multiple copies of each of the above, and each >has a .pif attachment (that's a PROGRAM...an unknown program...more than >likely a DANGEROUS program). Here's hoping none of you opened the >attachment. > >So far, I've been able to catch and eliminate all of them...but this is >obviously upsetting enough people that I notice today that 2-3 people >are attempting to unsubscribe from the VFR list. They sent the notice >to the wrong addy, but it makes one wonder how many folks who know how >to unsubscribe properly are doing so. > >Even more disturbing: in the last 48 hours I've rec'd 3 "returned mail" >notices from servers I don't know stating that they've rejected a >message "I sent" because it contained a suspicious .pif attachment. >These are messages to people I don't know, THAT I NEVER SENT, but I'm >listed as the sender. Obviously, someone mined my e-mail address from >somewhere on the internet (maybe off of a previous legitimate message on >somebody else's' box that I really did send?). > >For the record: I'm certainly no computer guru, but I've been pretty >active on the web since 1990 and I try hard to stay current on computer >security issues. I've made sure all unnecessary ports are closed. I >run a highly regarded, modern firewall. I update the virus definitions >on my anti-virus program religiously (once a week normally...but I >updated EVERY DAY THIS WEEK!). I've also run a full virus scan every >day this week. Everything has come up clean. So I don't think I'm part >of the problem. > >Someone on the list may be. And may not know it. Frankly, I don't know >what else to do about it except to continue to watch those incoming >e-mails like a hawk. > >Anybody else got any ideas? Anybody else experiencing the deluge of >peculiar e-mails with .pif attachments? > >Best regards, > >Fred > >One of the great discoveries >Good-bye! shaving brush >Old men look younger >Young men look handsomer >Very fine for the skin >--Burma-Shave-
