Help me Oh Techie Gods

Post by **Jomomma** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:28 pm

In the last couple weeks I have been recieving very strange email in my yahoo.
When I get somethign that I am not expecting I usualy delete it right away
Anythign that comes from bus or other places I know I tend to open it right away.
Trouble is I received a couple things from bus with attachments.
This has never ever happened so I never opend it.
I have also received things from other places I know with attachments and their should be any.
Today I got one from an addy that was a personal addy so I did open it.
My virus scan thingy found a virus and refused to open the mail.

I have had no less than 10 of these weird emails in the last 2 weeks.
I have received 3 from bus
The subjests are Re:You document, Re:Your software, Re:Word file.

I have no idea if anyone else is getting these but I am assuming that they are not from bus but from someone else.
If they are from here maybe someone in the know(namely Deb or other techie people involved in this kind of thing).

I have not opened them cause I had a pretty good idea that they were infected with something.

Anyway
I do have a question in all of this mindless rambling.
Anyway I can keep this from happening?Some of the emails are from addys that I know well and therefoe confusing the hell out of me.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Jo

Ime · Post by **Ime** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:49 pm

virus. they like to choose addresses from people you recognise.

Probably it means that someone you know on bus has a virus on their puter....

Ime

Post by **Jomomma** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:51 pm

That makes some sense
But
Why would I be getting infected stuff from busmail.org?

Ime · Post by **Ime** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:18 pm

cos most viruses seem to fake email addresses using a familiar domain, or use an email address in the sender's address book.

bleh

Post by **Jomomma** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:19 pm

*light goes on*

Got it

I am a bit 'puter illiterate

Ime · Post by **Ime** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:32 pm

It's a pain. With some viruses (if it lets you open the email once attachment is removed) you can tell who the origianl sender is, but not all of them

Post by **Jomomma** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:34 pm

I tried to open one, only cause it was apparently from someone i knew very well.
It was scanned and refused to open the attachment. It told me to return to sender
Which I did

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:59 am

I got a couple of dodgy emails last week

One was saying that my excel file was corrupt.. I've never emailed an excel file in my life! and the addy I sent it to was completely unknown to me.. and I received two from "Hotmail Staff" saying *I'd* sent viruses..again, the people I'd apparently sent the emails to, their addy's were completely alien

Ime · Post by **Ime** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:28 am

snowangel_03 wrote:and I received two from "Hotmail Staff" saying *I'd* sent viruses..again, the people I'd apparently sent the emails to, their addy's were completely alien

I've had that one (or what i think you're describing) It's *nasty*. By that i mean.. You get a seemingly "normal" mail saying you've sent a virus to someone, but infact, the email TO you has a virus.

grrrr.

My ISP removes all viruses at the source, and i have norton running as well, so it's been a while since I've had one (now THAT is tempting fate

)

Ime

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:37 am

Ime wrote:
snowangel_03 wrote:and I received two from "Hotmail Staff" saying *I'd* sent viruses..again, the people I'd apparently sent the emails to, their addy's were completely alien
I've had that one (or what i think you're describing) It's *nasty*. By that i mean.. You get a seemingly "normal" mail saying you've sent a virus to someone, but infact, the email TO you has a virus.

grrrr.

My ISP removes all viruses at the source, and i have norton running as well, so it's been a while since I've had one (now THAT is tempting fate )

Ime

I have Norton running and my security's set on high, so any potentially dodgy emails get junked straight away.

Worthless · Post by **Worthless** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:41 am

Hotmail accounts seem to have a lot of 'mail undelivered' and 'you sent someone a virus' type emails being sent to them with virus attachments recently. I figured it was just my account, but lots of others seem to be having the sme problem.

My anti-virus software doesn't let me open them though, so that's ok for me.

L

Post by **swirlish** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:45 pm

I've gotten a lot of these mails too and so have several people I've talked to. I have Norton and I never open attachments I'm not 100% sure what it is, even if I recognize the address. Most viruses nowadays pretend to be from someone you know

Make it a general rule to only open attachments you knew were coming or you're 100% what it is. Rather send a mail and ask if someone sent you something before opening. And use an AntiVirus program

metzli · Post by **metzli** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:10 am

I get weird crap. It's super easy to throw together a script that will mask the sender's e-mail address. Basically, if I get something questionable that appears to be from someone I know, I try to contact the person before opening it. For example, my mom doesn't know how to e-mail attachments, even though I've shown her how a bunch of times, so if I got an e-mail from her that had an attachment, I'd call her before even opening the e-mail. Unless you block images, spammers can get acknowledgement that your e-mail addy exists from you just opening the e-mail.

metzli

guest11 · Post by **guest11** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:01 pm

I managed to get my AV software to scan all incoming files for viruses before letting the download complete (after a few tries I got it working, on my first try I made it start Minesweeper instead of scanning the file with the AV software

) so that's good.... apparntly my ISP removes all viruses at the source but there is no such thing as foolproof AV software.

Help me Oh Techie Gods

Help me Oh Techie Gods

Who is online