is anyone getting this virus? I’m interesting in knowing how propagated this is… a variant apparently was released this morning, and it hit someone at our office. We don’t know who it is yet.
Someone around you has the virus when you get a bunch of emails with the headers:
Your details
Thank you!
Re: Thank you!
Re: Details
Re: Re: My details
Re: Approved
Re: Your application
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: That movie
Usually, you can’t tell who the virus is from, since it has its own SMTP engine to create the email messages, and it uses the addresses on the victim’s machine.
I can just imagine the shame… everybody in your office has to have a virus scan, and it turns out to be you :P. Ouch!
That virus doesn’t seem too dangerous, because the headers are set, so you know what to expect. Some viruses use phrases picked from files on your hard drive, so they’re more dangerous, because you can’t tell people to avoid certain emails.
I’ve been getting a LOT of junk mail from random people through Outlook Express that starts with "Re: " in the title. But doesn’t seem to affect me, what does it do?
the annoyance is that it creates a lot of email traffic. We’ve eliminated some possibilities as to who the person is. Basically, its someone that hasn’t emailed me yet, because the virus isn’t sending emails to me. (I’m a pretty new employee where I work.) We’ve narrowed it down to a couple of people, but so far they have been unreachable, and they work out of the office, so we can’t do anything about it. I’m pretty sure my coworkers’ mailboxes are bouncing back emails now because they’re so full. One of my coworkers was getting 7 emails a minute.
Even then though, you’d still have the annoyance of receiving all those email messages.
I guess someone that had me on their contact list sent out an email faking my school email address to the department of defense… it was kind of funny receiving a rejected email from them.
I doubt that anyone in this forum would fall succeptible to this virus, but it’s all the dumb people we know (that would open the stupid attachment) that really screw us.
i m getting viruses from peoples resume, i posted an advertisement in the newspaper couple of days back as i m recruiting few developers/designers and i m getting viruses wid
subjects like " attachecd my cv" “my resume” and so on…
i got 180 mails and 138 had viruses in them and i always get emails like:"last night was great, here are some pics "
I’m up to 200+ viruses today. I have Norton so it alerts me everytime a virus comes in. Problem is I get one every 30 seconds 5 minutes or so. So I have this alert pop-up I have to confirm before it continues to check my mail
300+ viruses of that exact same one. Ethan - disable the alert thing in Norton. I have mine set to silenty delete - It works in the background and doesn’t bother me.
We had one person in the office get a bunch of emails like that, but Mcafee zapped those little guys dead. =) Otherwise it has yet to bother me. Of course I don’t give my work email out to anyone that doesn’t need it for work stuff.
In the year that I’ve had my new laptop, I have not recieved a virus in the mail, my regular inbox or my junk mail account on MSN.
The only viruses I’ve gotten were when I was crawling the school’s network looking for movies/songs to download, and shared printers to use on people’s computers. Nortons picked them up right away … even got rid of those files on the other computers causing the infection!
I take extra special care of my computer, and it takes extra special care of me
Just an update, PA’s government network is down from this virus … you wouldn’t believe how many stupid people work for the state
I have received 500+ of these now and I just had a client email me who was very, very upset because he is getting spammed. I had to explain to him that this is not mine or his websites fault.
Does anyone know if the virus sends to everyone in an address book as everyone in the address book. So my address book with 10 people will end up sending 100 emails?
it takes the email addresses from your address books and from any html files you might have on your computer.
if the emails come from you, it doesn’t mean that you have. It means that someone who has your email address has it. The virus doesn’t really send it as coming from the infected computer.
