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Not sure where I should have posted this but jamesthomas and myself have recieved a number of emails with a virus from nool email addresses. MissJem, Banseeman and others. (an we are sure they have not been sent by these folks) They all seem to contain the same virus and there are only attachments with the email, no text. Please be careful everyone when you open any files, especially if you are not expecting them.
Oh right, I just thought Missy Jem was overly obnoxious on email ... didn't realise it was actually a virus?! 
shit. just checked me Yahoo, and i've got one from someone called Hicks, Jemma.
i take it, its to be binned?
john kershaw wrote: shit. just checked me Yahoo, and i've got one from someone called Hicks, Jemma.
i take it, its to be binned?
Don't just bin it. Douse it in petrol and torch it till it's turned to nothing but crisp.
After all that, it still won't appear as [cough] 'tanned' as its sender.
john kershaw wrote: i've also got a bucket load from webmaster@neworderonline. shall i open?
advices please?
Depends.. if it's thread subscription info, sure... otherwise, I never send mail with webmaster@... always with nleblanc@.... !
Spotnick wrote:
john kershaw wrote: i've also got a bucket load from webmaster@neworderonline. shall i open?
advices please?
Depends.. if it's thread subscription info, sure... otherwise, I never send mail with webmaster@... always with nleblanc@.... !
no, its says: new reply to your subscribed thread on scouse manager for England. -- - loads of times on 25th Jan.
Hay-elp?????????????????????///
I just got this!
Super Viagra
Viagra
You have not tried Cialis yet? Than you cannot even imagine what it is like to be a real man in bed! The thing is that a great errrect1on is provided for you exactly when you want. Cialis has a lot of advantages over Viagra the effect lasts 36 hours! You are ready to start within just 10 minutes! You can mix it with alcohol!
The ideal candidate will be.....
Stupid enough, not only to read email in windows XP, but to do so with Outhouse Excuse Somone who has both Jem's address and LJs and JT's Someone who does not run an antivirus auto-protect despite allowing the world's least secure Operating system near the internet. And presumably Somone who has been repeatedly dropped on their head from a great height since a young age.
If the above sounds like you. Kill yourself and you PC before either breed. EDIT
BTW..... if you want toknow if it's you..... open outhouse and before you do anything....watch the lights on your modem (or if you've made it that far up the foodchain, use the windows performance meter to watch network traffic) if you see a lot of outbound traffic that's nowt to do with you...see above for remedy.
You could always try reading mail headers too, but if you have an XP zombie I'm betting that's beyond you.
Send me your viri, your worms, your pathetic scripts yeraning to be run.
LOL
Windows is too good for you.
(I should point out that where as windows is a water pistol protected by a sign saying...please do not misuse....should someone actually GET round the defneces on y Linux box..... they have a thermonuclear weapon by comparison...this machine could be LETHAL if taken over, and I and I alone would get the boning for it....wipe tha smug fucking geek smile off me gob anyway :D )
john kershaw wrote:
Spotnick wrote:
john kershaw wrote: i've also got a bucket load from webmaster@neworderonline. shall i open?
advices please?
Depends.. if it's thread subscription info, sure... otherwise, I never send mail with webmaster@... always with nleblanc@.... !
no, its says: new reply to your subscribed thread on scouse manager for England. -- - loads of times on 25th Jan.
Hay-elp?????????????????????///
That's normal then... they are reply notifications for a thread you subscribed to.
Steve Campbell wrote: The ideal candidate will be.....
Stupid enough, not only to read email in windows XP, but to do so with Outhouse Excuse Somone who has both Jem's address and LJs and JT's Someone who does not run an antivirus auto-protect despite allowing the world's least secure Operating system near the internet. And presumably Somone who has been repeatedly dropped on their head from a great height since a young age.
If the above sounds like you. Kill yourself and you PC before either breed.
Now come on, Windows XP *IS* secure, so is Outlook 2003... problem is people with obsolete versions.
The mail virus happened using the system used by developpers to enhance outlook, and believe me, Outlook is now a pain in the a*se when you need to develop an extension for it due to the security in it.
Linux or Mac don't have much virus because they don't have anybody using them, so it's useless to do so :p
j/k, I know Linux is more secure due to the amount of people being able to check the code... ;) but as long as I don't have my development tools for Linux, or Photoshop etc for Linux, I'm staying away from it...
john kershaw wrote: shit. just checked me Yahoo, and i've got one from someone called Hicks, Jemma.
i take it, its to be binned?
Thats the one that JT got I think, unless Missy has been secretly advising him on how to avoid Manchester trams.!!
PS if anyone WANTS a virus, I aint cleaned my mailbox out since august 2000 so I have a fairly solid record of the little beasties, I run them on vmware sometimes for the sheer hell of it. Tho I avoid using WINE in case it emulates things too well and get's all chuck norris with my windows emulatation directory
lucyjane wrote:
john kershaw wrote: shit. just checked me Yahoo, and i've got one from someone called Hicks, Jemma.
i take it, its to be binned?
Thats the one that JT got I think, unless Missy has been secretly advising him on how to avoid Manchester trams.!!
It aint Jem, cos if it was...they would appear in my folder for Jem (labelled "Bolton Parrot fetishists") :D Whoever it is....does not seem to have my address, if that's any kind of a clue.
Maybe if we get a list of who's getting them and who's not....we can deduce the owner of the zombie and have them exterminated?
It's not just missy's email that appears, also bansheeman and gerry jamieson, rather odd. Thought bansheeman was sending me some superb photos but turns out to be a load of virus bollocks. Felt special and wanted for about five minutes! 
All very strange, not being a computer head I find it all very hard to understand why anyone would want to fook up your computer and apparently wipe out all of your word files. 
Spotnick wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote: The ideal candidate will be.....
Stupid enough, not only to read email in windows XP, but to do so with Outhouse Excuse Somone who has both Jem's address and LJs and JT's Someone who does not run an antivirus auto-protect despite allowing the world's least secure Operating system near the internet. And presumably Somone who has been repeatedly dropped on their head from a great height since a young age.
If the above sounds like you. Kill yourself and you PC before either breed.
Now come on, Windows XP *IS* secure, so is Outlook 2003... problem is people with obsolete versions.
The mail virus happened using the system used by developpers to enhance outlook, and believe me, Outlook is now a pain in the a*se when you need to develop an extension for it due to the security in it.
Linux or Mac don't have much virus because they don't have anybody using them, so it's useless to do so :p
j/k, I know Linux is more secure due to the amount of people being able to check the code... ;) but as long as I don't have my development tools for Linux, or Photoshop etc for Linux, I'm staying away from it...
Thing is buddy, you are intelligent and well versed in computers enough to tae care of windows properly.
The issue with ROOT access is the biggest stumbler to taking over a linux box, no random user can alter system files.
this is the only one I ever seen.... "YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS
This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of Unix or Linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random. Thank you."
Mac's make up 15 percent and Linux about another 10 to 15 of home machines, but they do not account for an equal volume of viri (remember Macs run Free-BSD now (labelled as OSx) ). The fact that linux and BSD machines run the whole internet (that's why the WWW doesn't reboot every 5 mins) would make them an asymetrically attractive target, but it doesn't happen that way.
BTW....download GIMP for windows....if you can find anything it doesn't do that PS does, ask the devels and they'll stick it in :D
lucyjane wrote: It's not just missy's email that appears, also bansheeman and gerry jamieson, rather odd. Thought bansheeman was sending me some superb photos but turns out to be a load of virus bollocks. Felt special and wanted for about five minutes!
All very strange, not being a computer head I find it all very hard to understand why anyone would want to fook up your computer and apparently wipe out all of your word files.
1.because masturbation isn't the top hobby among 14 yrolds anymore? 2. Can we get some hugs for LJ please? (HUG from me to start you off, there you ARE special :D )
lucyjane wrote: It's not just missy's email that appears, also bansheeman and gerry jamieson, rather odd. Thought bansheeman was sending me some superb photos but turns out to be a load of virus bollocks. Felt special and wanted for about five minutes!
All very strange, not being a computer head I find it all very hard to understand why anyone would want to fook up your computer and apparently wipe out all of your word files.
coz some people are gobshites, that's all
gerry jamieson wrote: I havent got a fuckin clue what any of you are talking about,sorry, goodnight.
Proves my point exactly. obviously you didn't send the emails someone did it on your behalf with your email address. Be afraid, be very afraid
If you are going to use a mail program on Windows, you could always use... Thunderbird.
I know, I know, I just love the Mozilla products, is all. Probably wouldn't help in this case much, but overall seems to identify enough spam that I don't deal with it.
(Though, again, won't help much if you're just using webmail like yahoo, or hotmail unless you pay MSN or Yahoo for the ability to access mail from a home-based mail program. But, if you've got a mail account with your ISP or from a domain you've bought,it does wonders for that. Just remember to mark any messages that aren't valid as spam within the program, so it learns what is and isn't good, and remember to keep up a good address book to verify against.)
There are also numerous standalone programs one can use to secure their existing older technology Outlook/Express program. Some are free like Mailwasher, and some others you might need to pay for to get more functionality.
I think anyone can learn to used outside programs apart from their PC's bundledware as long as they make sure to read and understand the documentation. :D
Steve & Melly..stop scaring people.
I use XP & Outlook bareback (no firewall & anti-virus to slow down my Reason stuff) and never had a virus.
OK, I work in computer security so know what I'm doing, but the message is use common sense always and you'll be fine. And that means DO NOT connect your computer directly to the internet. You can buy really cheap routers on ebay for less than the price of firewall/anti-virus software.
Unless I've just been lucky and am talking out of my arse
Wouldnt be the first time
whoa- I've had issues with sexual advise ending up in the mailbox over these last few weeks and was hoping that it wasn't anything to do with latched on parasite. Spotnick, isn't this site fairly secure?? any 'vitamin discounts and things, sorry- I'll shop in person. bin it , erase, delete. burn. same things with answering machines. if it's that important, leave a message or call back. Melly- that pre-spam alert is a hyper joy isn't it.
Barney Army wrote: Steve & Melly..stop scaring people.
I use XP & Outlook bareback (no firewall & anti-virus to slow down my Reason stuff) and never had a virus.
OK, I work in computer security
but, doesn't XP have a complete security line of defense all set up? that's part of the conflicting power struggle that ensues when setting up. even shutting down? still, knock on wood.
Barney Army wrote: Steve & Melly..stop scaring people.
I use XP & Outlook bareback (no firewall & anti-virus to slow down my Reason stuff) and never had a virus.
OK, I work in computer security so know what I'm doing, but the message is use common sense always and you'll be fine. And that means DO NOT connect your computer directly to the internet. You can buy really cheap routers on ebay for less than the price of firewall/anti-virus software.
Unless I've just been lucky and am talking out of my arse
Wouldnt be the first time
You probably explained things to outlook that most people don't (don't auto execute scripts and binaries for a start). a router and it's hardware firewalling will give only very limited protection against a true virus it WILL keep out crackers ( cos good lord does Xp leave a lot of stuff open)and ruin trojan's days but they do jack to help against a true virus. I use kaspersky AV in windows (after all I have to open installers from dodgy websites), it doesn't seem to annoying to cubase tho I still kill it off if doing anything major, or playing games. I dont use any of those little "firewall" that run in the task bar, the are not fiewalls, tho I admit for a novice user they are infinitely more useful that a real one.
People need to be scared frankly, only then will they DO something before it's too late. There ought to be a way to make zombie spam boxes burst into flames. :D
