Re: e-mail virus bombardment...

[Jan Fisher]

So far I have gotten more than 500 of them! Yikes! I keep deleting and they
keep on coming! None have come to my AOL account tho, all to my CPC acct.
Weird. Hope it goes away soon and hope noone opens any of these and gets more
than merely annoyed.

Jan Fisher
Just pack - We'll do the rest!
Card Player Cruises
http://www.cardplayercruises.com/

[Barbara Yoon]

Lee Munzer (yesterday):
>>>>> I returned home from lunch and had 17 messages... seven were virus
>>>>> attachments... ... This type of virus e-mails itself from infected
>>>>> machines. It uses a bogus "From" address...

me (yesterday):
>>>> Lee (and all other RGP'ers).....I received 5 of those viruses today...
>>>> ...and 36 more such messages still to be downloaded... Yikes...!!
>>
>>>> [later:] Help!! I'm being SWAMPED by dozens of these viruses...

me (today):
>> Jeeez.....and when I first turned on my computer today, 41 more of them
>> (fortunately however, these all without the 100KB attachments)...
>>
>> Of the nearly 200 of these things received so far, many are 'repeaters'...
>>
>> tadperry@attbi.com 3
>> caro@caro.com 5
>> RussGeorgiev@aol.com 4
>> newgca@aol.com 2
>> cardplayercruise@aol.com 3
>> luckylee@cox.net 2
>>
>> ...anybody else getting anything like this...?!

Jan Fisher (Card Player Cruises):
> So far I have gotten more than 500 of them! Yikes! I keep deleting and they
> keep on coming! None have come to my AOL account tho, all to my CPC
> acct. Weird. Hope it goes away soon and hope noone opens any of these
> and gets more than merely annoyed.



Jan -- gotta be all MIKE CARO's fault...just no other reasonable explanation!

[Chip Ed Up]

On 20 Aug 2003 16:03:16 GMT, Jan Fisher <pokerfish@aol.comENUFJUNK> wrote:

> So far I have gotten more than 500 of them! Yikes! I keep deleting and
> they
> keep on coming! None have come to my AOL account tho, all to my CPC acct.
> Weird. Hope it goes away soon and hope noone opens any of these and gets
> more
> than merely annoyed.
>
> Jan Fisher
> Just pack - We'll do the rest!
> Card Player Cruises
> http://www.cardplayercruises.com/


Jan,

Are you running an antivirus program on you mail server or gateway? If not
then I highly recommend that you get one. Until then you could have your
admins write a script to block theses emails. I am guessing that you do
not, AND YOU SHOULD.

BTW have you check to see if your infected? Go here for info:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F

[AlwaysAware]

>(Jan Fisher)

> None have come to my AOL account tho, all to my CPC acct.
>Weird.

I think the lastest version of AOL has some type of anti virus scanning thingie
in there.

J

[Jan Fisher]

Hi Ed,
Thanks for the suggestions. I am running Norton and have all of the recent
updates. My computer(s) are clean. (Which is more than I can say for my house
or mind). Also, I have run all of these latest scans that look for just this
virus and I am good to go. I will talk to my administrator about getting these
emails to stop. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!




>From: Chip Ed Up anonymous@techemail.com

>Jan,
>
>Are you running an antivirus program on you mail server or gateway? If not
>then I highly recommend that you get one. Until then you could have your
>admins write a script to block theses emails. I am guessing that you do
>not, AND YOU SHOULD.
>
>BTW have you check to see if your infected? Go here for info:
>http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F
>

Jan Fisher
Just pack - We'll do the rest!
Card Player Cruises
http://www.cardplayercruises.com/

[Chip Ed Up]

Jan,

If you are using Exchange you can block attachements by extension.

If you are running Sendmail, I recommend that that you have them write a
perl script to stip out any attachment that could cause problems. They can
be saved to a folder and examined by the admin for suitability.

There are some very good gateway programs out there that will block a lot
of this.

Good Luck,
ChipEdUp

Leader of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to make poker how we choose our
President.