OT: PLEASE UPDATE

Raging Deadstar · #1 May 17th, 2004, 10:39 PM

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

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

Slynky · #2 May 18th, 2004, 12:18 AM

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 · #3 May 18th, 2004, 01:31 AM

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 · #4 May 18th, 2004, 01:40 AM

Scanned Last night.

Ruatha · #5 May 18th, 2004, 09:17 AM

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.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 May 18th, 2004, 09:42 AM

Simply bill the hackers with all the damage they cause.

trooper · #7 May 18th, 2004, 09:44 AM

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 ***.