Endless email viruses

[ƒORM]

Since Christmas I've been bombarded with viruses most likely from the same person who has no clue their computer is plagued with them. Get with the program and get a virus scanner you twit :y:.

The virus itself is an exe file (waiting to be executed) that arrives every day with a new header. The content has the same horseshit text attached.

Example of email:

Header: Are you a soccer fan?

Hello,
The attached product is send as a part of our official campaign
for the popularity of our product.
You have been chosen to try a free fully functional sample of our
product.If you are satified then you can send it to your friends.
All you have to do is to install the software and register an account
with us using the links provided in the software. Then send this software
to your friends using your account ID and for each person who registers
with us through your account, we will pay you $1.5.Once your account reaches
the limit of $50, your payment will be send to your registration address by
check or draft.

Please note that the registration process is completely free which means
by participating in this program you will only gain without loosing anything.

Best Regards,
Admin, @ [email protected]

#2 Header: Free screensavers
Text:
Hello,
The attached product is send as a part of our official campaign
for the popularity of our product.
You have been chosen to try a free fully functional sample of our
product.If you are satified then you can send it to your friends.
All you have to do is to install the software and register an account
with us using the links provided in the software. Then send this software
to your friends using your account ID and for each person who registers
with us through your account, we will pay you $1.5.Once your account reaches
the limit of $50, your payment will be send to your registration address by
check or draft.

Please note that the registration process is completely free which means
by participating in this program you will only gain without loosing anything.

Best Regards,
Admin,

Shitty thing is i'm averaging 4-5 per day and I have no way of blocking the sender

[sh4un]

gettin some of these 2?

Hi,
Are you lonely ??..
check the attached screensaver and
forget the pain of loneliness

[sh4un]

hi,
check the attached love screensaver
and feel the fragrance of true love..

[sh4un]

i keep gettin em non stop 2 :/

[ƒORM]

lol yep those are hella familiar

[sNyx]

Originally posted by ~fORM®
Shitty thing is i'm averaging 4-5 per day and I have no way of blocking the sender

try 10-20, u beat me to posting this thread today. nicely done. :284:

[Bitchin]

you only get like 4-5... man your a lucky bastard...

I averrage from fucking 15-20.... and I've blocked so many addy's that I can't block anymore!!!ugh.. and I hate the ones from the fuckin -unknow- person.. its giegh

[ƒORM]

I'm not alone :):y:

[ƒORM]

Well at least i know it's not u 3 =D

Lets find the culprit

[miss.myra]

The thing is, you'd really hope that people would learn...even people like your parents or grandparents who are bad enough with computers....that it's NEVER a good idea to open attachments in weird e-mails from people you don't know!

[Bitchin]

^thats not a good thing buddy...

amybe I should write back to these people with hate mail.. hahahah

[MissBehavior]

I'm just automatically deleting anything from 45-50k that looks fishy...And I guess I'm lucky...I've had 2...total. :c-tard:

[Candy-Kid]

yeah i know what you mean
they are about 47kb or something in space and are always spam
dunno what is up

[Bitchin]

^well duh you delete is lisa.. who ever opens them and looks googled eyed at them is stupid..

BUT THEY JUST WONT GO AWYA!

[rawb]

im lucky enough to run my mail server.

right now im also using popfile, which uses bayesian statistics. basicly it uses statistics on words, html, senders and the like from all the email you have archived and makes rules based on that. super-interesting and it works really, really well to classify my mail.

but its only as good as the mail you feed it, so before it works you have to feed it mail you like to recieve as well as the mail you dont.

anyways, anyone who is moderate computer geek can install it, though it is kind of hairy for a newbie. go to http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ . it works with outlook as well as eudora... its perl based.

[sNyx]

you would think outlook work have SOME sorta app to help combat this shit.. basically I have all my attatchment emails moved to a "attachments" folder in outlook, and all attachments are locked (cant open em) unless u move them out of the folder.

yeah its a start, but still a pain!

[yourlilbaby]

they jsut dont stop coming!!!!! i dont know why the hell do people make up this shit!?

[c.tard]

That stupid screensaver virus, ah!!

I was getting like 4823048923 a day.. and all from the same person. It happened to be one of my good friends and i emailed her to let her know, helped her remove it and now it's stopped!


It was so annoying though.. ahh. virus' bug me.

[stringbeans]

thats funny.. i always hear about people getting email viruses and getting infected and stuff

i have YET to be a victim of an email virus.. or ANY virus for that matter

john
2899131

[GiggleyGal]

^^You're lucky. I wish I could say the same. :(

[ty:rone]

outlook, hotmail, yahoo are all bastards when it comes to email.

i use apartment107.com email
it's spamless mail
i like that shit.

I keep getting them too.
I had 52 emails in my junk folder this morning, 80% of them were that dumb virus!

[cyberdog]

Originally posted by miss.myra
The thing is, you'd really hope that people would learn...even people like your parents or grandparents who are bad enough with computers....that it's NEVER a good idea to open attachments in weird e-mails from people you don't know!

The thing is, most people use Outlook Express or Outlook...and the default option for the preview pane is "ON"...which means if they just click on it once it previews in the lower portion of the screen and with many viruses this is enough to trigger it. Eevn the ones who have 'learned' to not open anything wind up previewing and activating the virus even if they right-click on the email and choose 'Delete'. And many of these people aren't sophisticated enough to change their display options.

Personal pet peeve is those who don't use a good anti-virus program...if U can afford a computer U can afford decent AV software that auto-updates without U having to do anything. Nothings 100%, sure, but it really helps.

Personal pet peeve #2 is people who call me (since I work as internet tech support) and scream @ me cuz they got a virus...next they'll blame me for the children's cold.

[dj_precise]

i got it = (

so far its created 376 infected virus files.....
I dont know what to do??

[sNyx]

Originally posted by dj_precise
i got it = (

so far its created 376 infected virus files.....
I dont know what to do??

dude I gotta copy of mcafee here, grab me on msn or icq and I will send it to ya. :y:

but yeah im going on a little hunt today for a new email app with some better virus filtering.. I will post my findings later