OT: PLEASE UPDATE

[Atrocities]

For the love of God please update and run an anti virus program on your systems. Someone from this communitee is infected and your email list is being mined.

Please install or update and run an anti-virus program.

If you have the following names in your email list, then take special notice. (These are just from today and do not include the 13 or so that were automatically deleted.)


Service_Clientele@
Jdupond@Club@
M4s@
recrutment@
starfury@
Kazharii@
pduchemin@
alaoneagain@
france@
jon@farley.
mspss@
login@pop3.
atrocities@ast.com (Not me)
mon_autre_login@
marieyves.assoulin@
mmartin@
pvk@
jdupont_1@
jdupont@
g_Kane@

[Ed Kolis]

It might be your computer that's infected, and drawing a bunch of fake senders' addresses out of your address book...

just a thought...

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
It might be your computer that's infected, and drawing a bunch of fake senders' addresses out of your address book...

just a thought... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Um Ed, don't you think I would have ran a scan of my system before I posted here? I think that falls under the Duhhhhh file.

[ May 17, 2004, 21:26: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Raging Deadstar]

I'm running a check now.

A "Check" On My Pc Constitutes of 2 Anti-virus programs and 2 spyware programs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Just being on the safe side http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Arkcon]

I've been applying updates to my antivirus program (I use AVG {web page} (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php)) and running a complete scan pretty frequently these past couple days. My network connection has been running slow, so I figured viruses were going around, slowing up the networks. I've always been clean, however.

[EDIT]
Hmmm. A quick check at the Windows update page tells me I'm missed the Last 2 updates to XP. One dated May 11th and the other more recent combo. So that may be something you all ought to check. Quick 1 meg download.

[ May 17, 2004, 21:36: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Atrocities]

The more people that are aware of the problem the better chance we have limiting the effect. Most likely this issues will continue for some time, but my god, 32 virus emails in one day is a tad to much even for me to deal with.

And that was on only ONE email account. I average between 60 to 100 over the three emails accounts I have with ASTmod

I hate viruses, and the scum who make them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

I've noticed a hell of a lot of e-mails keep getting around with the Netsky Virus or something. Luckily i'm using hotmail (gasp did i say that?) which puts them in the junk mail folder, after that i just delete every e-mail from people i don't know and have suspicious features (Like 6 e-mails with the same size attachment and a one word subjects)

But i agree, Viruses are only useful in one way. They should be designed (if at all) in a safe enviroment for Compnaies (Microsoft etc) by people for them, so they can prevent these viruses exploiting our systems in the first place.

Edit: I am Now Regretting having so many mods and Shipsets installed on my computer, it's the largest folder my pc ever has to scan Lol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[ May 17, 2004, 21:50: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Slynky]

Yep, since the Last few viruses came out, I've noticed I get around 3-4 emails a day caught by NAV. Before those, it was very rare I saw one a month.

We're (my wife and I) sure some of our friends are infected as you can get a clue (it seems) when we get our daily supply of jokes passed on to us AND a virus or two (before they terminate their dial-up connection). But they say their PC is clean.

[Baron Munchausen]

Heh...

After years of surfing the net in 'paranoid' mode (never post to a newsgroup with your real email address, kill all cookies after browser session, use anti-virus/firewall/proxy utilities) I've finally started getting spam. Apparently some of the very few people who actually had my email address were infected by the 'soBig' worm and once my email started getting used to send infection Messages it was harvested by a spammer somewhere. And now I get the viruses in my mailbox when the notices go out on public channels. Once you're 'known' you're 'known' and you can't undo it. At least I keep my NAV up-to-date and it protects me.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Scanned Last night.

[Ruatha]

Yep, I've suspected I've gotten virus mail from someone in the SEIV arena aswell, as that is almost the only ones outside sweden that has my e-mail adress, and all virus mails are from foreign senders.
What bugs me most are those mails that are being sent out from other computers with my mail adress as sender...
But, one gotta learn to live with this I suspect. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Simply bill the hackers with all the damage they cause.

[trooper]

Those addresses sounds french and could have been mine, but I don't think I'm infected at the moment (I have been infected a few months ago, and my provider warned me of several email user complaints). I've got all the latest Microsoft security patches installed, and I check my HD with AVG antivirus and adaware frequently...

I also get about 30 spam and virus emails each days ( surely more, as I've got ~100 filter rules set on my email server...). It's really a pain in the ***.

[Cipher7071]

Okay here...knock on wood.

[Gandalf Parker]

Im not really susceptable. I read my emails on a linux machine in text mode. Much faster. I have a popmail address I forward things to if they include graphics and I know the place they came from.

That doesnt mean I dont check anyway but so far the arrangment has kept me worry-free. Another advantage is that the linux address is a throw-away and the popmail one is a "real" address. So if the traffic gets messier than its worth I just kill the linux mailbox and make another.

[ May 18, 2004, 15:01: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Atrocities]

Thank you everyone for checking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by trooper:
Those addresses sounds french and could have been mine, but I don't think I'm infected at the moment (I have been infected a few months ago, and my provider warned me of several email user complaints). I've got all the latest Microsoft security patches installed, and I check my HD with AVG antivirus and adaware frequently... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">same here, no infection to report.
Could really be a french adress or a quebec one.

[Mephisto]

Does anyone has this test@club-internet.fr in it's adress book? Got a warning from them that I had sent them a virus but I'm clean. Unknown enemy, could Stephan have a virus?

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
I've noticed a hell of a lot of e-mails keep getting around with the Netsky Virus or something. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I get like 2 or 3 emails with such viruses every night lately. My Virus detector immediately deletes the attachments,and then I delete the email and I update my detector whenever I am not doing anything for 10 seconds. I especially never touch an email I don't know anything about. The emails aren't very convincing anyway. Half the time they don't even have any text. One of them I don't even know which was worse the fact someone was trying to give me a virus or that they obviouslly think I am an idiot. It said, and only said,

Take a look at this attachment.

Edit: oh, and I downloaded all the updates for my OS. Took up a lot of my download for this month, but better safe than sorry.

[ May 19, 2004, 09:01: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I got one with an .exe attachment with the word condom in it.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
Does anyone has this test@club-internet.fr in it's adress book? Got a warning from them that I had sent them a virus but I'm clean. Unknown enemy, could Stephan have a virus? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'll ask stephane to check that this evening, and I'll ask Olivier (Trinity) to do the same.

[mac5732]

I got an email that I had sent a virus to someone in county court in Colorado??? I don't know anyone in Colorado nor email anyone there??(nesky) Chek'ed my comp with Norton, adware, Pest Control, Panda and Stop Sign, Macafee... Everything was clean... So I talked with a friend of mine who is comp lit. and he said there is a program that some hackers use and it automatically generates random emails that are listed on the net and sends the virus'es out under those email handles and that your machine actually is not the one sending the viruses. whether this is true I don't know as everyone knows I'm not that comp literate. But I thought I would pass this one to everyone for your info... So it could be a program that generates your email and sends it out and its not your computer or your system doing it...

just some ideas Mac

[ May 19, 2004, 18:03: Message edited by: mac5732 ]