Folks, Just keep your virus software up to date. It is not expensive to buy and relatively simple to install. I use Norton. You guys with cable modems are especially vulnerable. I suspect the emails in question come from something called Badmail. This sends out emails from your computer without you even knowing it. Usually with wacky subjects. It includes a virus as well.
This is usually accompanied by a virus which removes ONLY the virus protection element of your virus protection. This is easy to find. Run your virus software. If the option to scan is not there, then you are infected. Call Norton for the fix. If you are a cable user, or if you leave your computer on line via a telephone line all the time, DON'T. Turn it the hell off. Or pull the damn plug. You do know that is a two way connection? People can work there way into yours? Yes. Oh another good one for you cable users. Badmail may be tied to a worm which looks for credit card numbers in your computer and passwords. It then creates an email, and sends it to the guys who wants this data. I work with the US Army here at Fort Monmouth in NJ. I am, unfortunately terribly familiar with viruses. We get many from the Army's paperless procurement system. I recently received an email from a competitor with pricing of his products and congressional points of contact. I called him up, thanked him for the data and suggested he check his damn computer for a virus. He did. He was infected. A month later, same thing. I called him up. He cursed. "Not again!" Feel free to contact me directly if you like at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you like. J.R. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alison & Jim Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:06 AM Subject: Re: Lots of strange non-steam emails > Hi. > > Yes lots around - on all the lists. It doesn't necessarilly mean the > sslivesteam list has got into wrong hands, anyone, ie any list member, with > an address book can have their address book raided by the worm / virus, if > they get the virus. > > Jim Gregg. > > At 06:56 PM 5/1/02 -0700, you wrote: > >I've been getting a lot (1-3 per day) of strange emails lately from > >unrecognizable senders, a strange Subject line and usually no message. > >I'm assuming that these are attempts to pass viruses/worms. Have any > >others of you on-list been getting these? > > > >If so, could the sslivesteam address book have come into evil hands? > > > > >
