so far today I have recieved virus packs today with Earthmama, SycamoreHollow and CelitiaSkye as senders. Someones address book has been snagged.

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2002

Answers

Yes I have been gettin em too, but I had my Norton check everything and it said I have no virus. Is there something else we should be doing?

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2002

Got 'em from EM, Sherri and Jay today. I'm clean. Who is Sycamore Hollow?

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2002

Type 1000@wormalert as the first address in your address book-If a virus gets in your address book you will get an e-mail as undeliverable to 1000@wormalert-at least you'll know you've been had. Daryll in NW FLA

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2002

Sycamore Hollow is another CS origin poster. Luckily my mail server dumped them all into bulk mail. There may be two different types the file sizes vary by about 20K . I personally do not send unsolicited email and use messenger or public forums to estabish mail transfers when required as a security feature. I also do not have an address book file or any outlook software. Also if you have telephone contact with an email recipient, setting up a validity codeword system helps to validate email transmissions as being valid. Other than that, continue to use your antiviral.

I have also recieved a viral pack labeled "Microsoft has detected a virus in your system"..... hint ; it aint Bill Gates' outfit sending that 130k message to you.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2002

I got one from Jay earlier this week and one yesterday that Norton picked up. I'm clean.

BTW, Polly did you send me an email with an attached file? It looks legit from the subject line but I haven't opened it yet just in case. :)

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2002

My norton found one today from "Failed Email Notification Administrator"

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2002

I never send anything with an attachment unless I send another e-mail first stating that I am doing so. Was it an allhallowsmas or something like that? If so, that's the one I've been getting - 2 from you and 2 from EM of that kind; 3 so far from Jay (who isn't in my address book); plus some from deadgoatman who I haven't seen since Countryside closed down and some other names I don't recognize. I've been deleting them without opening. My virus scan still says I'm clean.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2002

Same story here; I got seven this morning, and not all from folks in my address book, and not all recognizable. Norton says I'm clean too; anyone have an explanation for this kinda thing? The damn things take up a lot of space.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2002

Some that I am getting are ones that were prevelent last year. A possibility is someone was infected then and may have upgraded their computer and the system that was stored away as a backup was packed up before it could replicate and hit the host system. Now for some reason that infected PC has been reconnected to the net and is completing the infection code execution now. thats why I run stand alone non net virus scans on any retired back up systems 30 days after removal from internet use.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2002

HUH?

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2002

Yep, it was the allhallowmass thing. The subject of the one from Jay was "leftmargin". I haven't got any for a couple of days, I guess I'm not as popular as you folks. :)

I wish that Norton would work on the flu virus....

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2002

Sherri,

Leftmargin is one that I recieved from you, EM and three others. I have also heard that some attacks can fake off antiviral software so that it looks like your getting updated but you arnt. Maybe using multiple antivirals would help in a situation as that.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2002

Even if I did have a virus that was spoofing that the Norton updates were working correctly, I don't keep any of your email addresses in my address book so the virus shouldn't have anything to harvest from my computer, right?

Sycamore Hollow posts over on the CountrySide Family forum here on Lusenet, maybe someone from that forum is the source of the infection?

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2002