Worm Virus
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minornut

Original Poster:

1,049 posts

267 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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Is anyone-else getting plagued by emails with the worm virus W32/Sober.AH.worm or is it just me?

pgm

2,168 posts

279 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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only about 2000 of them a day

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

279 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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My Norton picked it up aswell just recently,do you use "Photobucket" by any chance?

iaint

10,040 posts

268 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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All nicely filtered out before it gets to the server I download from. Most of the spam too.

I haven't seen an email virus for years now

simpo two

92,914 posts

295 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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I use Mailwasher (free download) to delete all spam, which is where the viruses come from.

Marki

15,763 posts

300 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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i keep gettin mail with zip attachements

pgm

2,168 posts

279 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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ours have stopped today so ISP must be filtering them out now

scared but happy

24,147 posts

259 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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I keep getting the 'Verify your Barclays account' (about 5 a day)


minornut

Original Poster:

1,049 posts

267 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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All of them have a zip attached.
My anti-virus is blocking them but they keep interrupting my 'work'.
I've had them from the fbi, the cia and all sorts from all over the world but only one from a customer.

minornut

Original Poster:

1,049 posts

267 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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scared but happy said:
I keep getting the 'Verify your Barclays account' (about 5 a day)




I got 5 of those this morning as well

Marki

15,763 posts

300 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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scared but happy said:
I keep getting the 'Verify your Barclays account' (about 5 a day)




I am also getting these from every concievable German bank on a regular repeat basis

chassis 33

6,194 posts

312 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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pearl nicholas

11,963 posts

263 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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im getting the online pharmacy ones all the time with some quite bizarre senders names advertising viagra and all that shit,how the do they manage to get peoples e mail addresses

>> Edited by pearl nicholas on Monday 28th November 15:18

Marki

15,763 posts

300 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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pearl nicholas said:
im getting the online pharmacy ones all the time with some quite bizarre senders names advertising viagra and all that shit,how the do they manage to get peoples e mail addresses

>> Edited by pearl nicholas on Monday 28th November 15:18



Yup i am getting about 5 of these a day

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

279 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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pearl nicholas said:
im getting the online pharmacy ones all the time with some quite bizarre senders names advertising viagra and all that shit,how the do they manage to get peoples e mail addresses

>> Edited by pearl nicholas on Monday 28th November 15:18



Ime getting loads of Pen is anhancer ads,that could be from the ex though

scared but happy

24,147 posts

259 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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Oh look another one! I wish they would off!




>> Edited by scared but happy on Monday 28th November 18:55

polus

4,343 posts

255 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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scared but happy said:
Oh look another one! I wish they would off!




>> Edited by scared but happy on Monday 28th November 18:55


I too wish they would fk off.

The furthest I can trace it to is a machine in Bursa, Malaysia.

simpo two

92,914 posts

295 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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As I understand it, if you open one to see what it is, they somehow know you've done it so they're know you're 'live' and send you more shit.

billynomates

2,101 posts

266 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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simpo two said:
As I understand it, if you open one to see what it is, they somehow know you've done it so they're know you're 'live' and send you more shit.




Yep tis true and


Don't use mailwasher it will just add to you getting more of the spam stuff

Marshy

2,751 posts

314 months

Monday 28th November 2005
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If you get this stuff at work, pester your IT people to try something like MessageLabs or BlackSpider (or similar...). Outsourced, and ever so easy to bolt on to an existing corporate e-mail system assuming it's not already brain-dead in some way...