PETEW Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 YOu have a virus and it is sending me emails. Looks like you have the Exploit-MIME.gen. Tell your friends not to open emails from you are they will be infected. If anyone has gotten an email from Davy that says "congratulations! " do not open it if you do open it you will have the virus and will have to take the necessary measures to get rid of it. Now back to your normally scheduled show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Pete, I may or may not, but my Norton is up to date. As most viruses go, if they exploit a user's address book which contains my email address, it can look like there is a virus coming from anywhere. I do appreciate the information and I'll look into it further just to make sure. In the past, I have received a lot of virus laden email from all sorts of members on the site--but many don't have a virus. Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelman Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 This virus may not be coming from DavyZ. There are several email virii that not only grab the address to send to from your address book but also the address it came from. What this looks like is an email coming from DavyZ but it really is coming from someone else who has DavyZ in their address book as well as your address. I know the Klez worm does this as my wife's grand father was receiving email that looked like it was from us but it really originated with my wife's brother. The long and short of it is that if DavyZ's norton is up-to-date it's probably not him. I hate these f**king virii, they have cost me several weeks worth of system cleaning at work. Ken W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEW Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 I just want to know what kind of psychopath makes these things. I mean what kind of person spends all this time making something that will destroy other peoples systems, while being hard to detect, and never get to see the end results. That's like me getting my Z all finished and painted, have the motor running really good and never move it or see it again. STUPID! Oh well, that's my rant for the day. P.S. If you get an email with Congratulations then don't open it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Pete, I looked into it further and it seems like I don't have a virus. I even went to the Symantec site and downloaded all the present virus definitions in case my online update was knocked out or something. System scan: negative. I'm clean. Also, I have never sent you an email that I'm aware of, so your address is not in my address book. Also, my Norton scans my outgoing email for potential viruses. Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEW Posted December 9, 2003 Author Share Posted December 9, 2003 Yeah I just another e-mail from someone else. This time the subject was Re:undeliverable mail. Someone on this sight has to have a virus that has my e-mail and DavyZ's. Lucky for me I have McAfee so they aren't getting through. Oh well, just a heads up for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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