damian 0 Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 wow! I almost never get spam, perhaps 1 email every 6 weeks. Today I got 21 worm related emails and my email client was even trying to send emails to other places automatically. I use OCN for my interent account. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem... The Internet has been throwing fits today, all day. I hate it when it does that. It feels like one of my senses has been terminated... Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Warm Spam?? Link to post Share on other sites
Dokumanju 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Quote: my email client was even trying to send emails to other places automatically. that's pretty bizarre. sounds like u could be infected with sumthing and it's sending out mails to infect other people. what did ya mean by "worm related mails" ? were they like, spam mails offering to remove virii or were they mails with sumkind of evil attachment? well, if it bothers u, u could always do a scan using a free virus-scanner like AVG(www.grisoft.com). Doesn't sound like the blaster virus that's going round. It doesn't replicate itself thru email. My wife has an OCN account too but she hasn't had any wierd e-mails lately. sux to see u on the end of all this wackiness. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 My company had got that worm and network broke down yesterday. We couldn't do anything without computer. Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Got loads of crap here too. Annoying. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Author Share Posted August 22, 2003 For each email there was another email from OCN saying that a viral attachment had been scanned and removed, so I didn't actually ever see any attachment. The emails were very varied. I have deleted them, but from memory the headers were along the lines of: - "you have won" - "you email account is about to be cancelled, please read the attachment" - something to do with boots - "I miss you" - etc The emails being sent out (but halted by my quick mouse) were to strange addresses and usually no header. One was to myinfo@????.com. All the messages from OCN advising viral detection mention the word "worm". All this happened on my iMac. I have another OCN email address that is only accessed from my PC. This saw no worm mail. Link to post Share on other sites
Dokumanju 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 well, it's good to see that OCN is doing something on their end of things and catching those e-mails with suspicious attachments. as for the e-mails with a mind of their own sending themselves out, that definately sounds bad. I don't know much about mac viruses, i was studying for the MCSE (Microsoft's inhouse degree), microsoft, as u know is ibm-based, so maybe i could have helped u there. Then again, is u'r mac PC emulating? u can always have a look at www.macvirus.com, it might give u a clue as to what it is that's going on. Sorry, i'm not much of a help. Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 VERY annoying - over 50 mails since 2 days ago Link to post Share on other sites
hide 0 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I got many also saying "re: thank you" and "wicked screensaver" and "your details" and like this. Did someone else sometimes delete important mail by mistake? I am sure sometime I do it. Link to post Share on other sites
wakaran 1 Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 This is the worst one yet Link to post Share on other sites
Dokumanju 0 Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Hey Hide, Quote: I got many also saying "re: thank you" and "wicked screensaver" and "your details" and like this. that sounds like the sobig virus. Whatever u do, don't open the pif files that come attached. apaarently there's a huge wave of it making the rounds right now - http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/22/sobig.virus/index.html Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 I had a period of 7 days not checking my mail just before - the email backlog when I got back was just ridiculous (including a lot of this crap). Link to post Share on other sites
Roger's head 0 Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Is there any punishment for these guys even if they catch them? Link to post Share on other sites
fantastic 0 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 I thought all this crap was solved this time round - I am getting more of those mails than ever this morning Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Hey db - if your computer is trying to send email that it sounds like it has been infected. Do an online virus scan asap. Horror stories abound about people that had embarrassing emails sent to everyone in their address books because of malicious worms. Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Mine was infected for a short period, then I quickly got it fixed. I am getting a lot of junk too at the moment. Where will it all end? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 It's worth investing a little bit of cash to be free of this sort of rubbish. And it's really necessary to get some protection if you need to be seen as a reliable online person. Since kamoshika recommended Mailwasher, I downloaded it free and then paid for it soon after. I wasn't sure about it at first, but it's really good, especially when you start setting filters. I'm also going to get Benign from the same company that makes Mailwasher. It strips all malicious code from email so that even if you don't have the latest virus software installed, you'll never get viruses from email. Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Perhaps these people making and selling these mail filters and decoders and stuff ar ethe ones who are also creating these malicous mails? I think I maybe reading too many conspiracy theories lately Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 definitely, O11 - I didn't know about Benign - thanks for that. Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 At last no more "wicked screensaver" mails coming, that was driving me mad Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 Heads up on Benign. If you get Japanese email, you may want to think twice about installing Benign - it seems to garble some email. I've uninstalled it until I hear back from them. Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 So that worm thing was instigated by a teenager just for kicks? Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 If were talking about the same guy then as I understand it he only changed it slightly to include his "cyber name" in the title and then let it keep spreading rather than instigate it. He'll still spend some time being the new meat in the prison shower though. Link to post Share on other sites
proudtobegay 0 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Will he though? What is the punishment for such an undefined offence? Link to post Share on other sites
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