Virus Alert

[mikelyons]

Hi folks,

I just received an email purporting to be from our revered Mr Straightmute, using a university email address :-

d.lancaster@ucrysj.ac.uk

This email contained a virus. If I can get one, so can you.

You have been warned

 

[Majoresteve]

i got something similiar last night, but from soundhousebrass@btopenworld

oh well, thats what email scanners are for!

 

[mikelyons]

i got something similiar last night, but from soundhousebrass@btopenworld

oh well, thats what email scanners are for!

Unfortunately not everyone has them or keeps them up-to-date. It took me three disasters before the penny dropped.

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

Yea there are loads of virus' going round all the time... I've had loads from ploughboy aka Garry Hallas! Get about 6/7 a day... and also my address has been sending out spam virus' too... there isn't anything that can be done to prevent it... rather annoying.

Best thing is just to ignore and delete anything that comes through... Having a virus scanner which detects these things is handy also. Norton is the best.

;-)

 

[HBB]

Alternatively, don't open anything from anyone you don't know, or don't open any thing you're not expecting...

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

... which speaks for itself.... as i said...

Best thing is just to ignore and delete anything that comes through

;-)

 

[mikelyons]

Some of these things do come from people you know. That's part of the problem :cry:

BTW, if anyone on here gets anything from oldhallbrass.co.uk, you can be sure it's a spoof. All band addresses are now .com except the junk mail collection mailbox.

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

Some of these things do come from people you know. That's part of the problem :cry:

Yea but how many people do you know who send out emails saying
"See attach
password 34479.... "

with a screensaver attachment...

or something similar....

 

[HBB]

The best one for me was:

Attatched is your important bill.

I don't have a credit card .... :?

 

[mikelyons]

Yea but how many people do you know who send out emails saying
"See attach
password 34479.... "

with a screensaver attachment...

or something similar....

The one that seemed to come from david was quite innocent and looked like a bounce from a mis-typed address.

I like the bank/credit ones, they are easy to spot. And usually, the spelling is awful.

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

Oh them ones are annoying.... if its the same as what I'm thinking... :lol:
no attachments in them... just a "mail delivery error" type thingy...

 

[mikelyons]

Oh them ones are annoying.... if its the same as what I'm thinking... :lol:
no attachments in them... just a "mail delivery error" type thingy...

Don't be too sure about that. I've had several with java scripts and, if it is a spoofed address of someone my email client recognises and the message is html, I've found a couple with hidden text. Luckily my script stopper clobbers them, but it's still risky.

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

aah right yea... follow you more now...
All not good is it.

Keep up the scanner updates and the index finger to delete them all! :lol:

 

[flugelgal]

Alternatively, keep a hotmail address just for spam and put that in your profile, so that it all goes there... Don't post your e-mail address on any website without a bit in the middle for example:

myname<nospam>@myisp.com - that way bots won't take out the <nospam> and humans (assuming you tell them to..) will.