Virus Warning

[Kevin.Beck]

i too had one,

also had one from neil @ actionsigns.

In fact i`ve had about 5 aday, all containing no text just an attachment.

[Lorraine Buchan]

Little buggers, Hey neil you best check your system out

[Andrew Blackett]

I keep getting an email every now and again that has the “w32.bugbear.b@mm” virus attached to it. Always has the subject line “sign_painters’_62233.eps.scr” luckily Norton picked it up and quarantined it before it could do any harm. To be honest I probably would have tried to read it because it had something to with signs

Andy

[Robert Lambie]

i know what you mean.. take the one i received from uksignboards? 😮
hhmmm as you can guess i deleted it. 😉

what i will say though.. i deleted somone about a week or so ago.
his details were vague and the funny thing was. his email contained uksignboards.. was something like dan.uksignboards@btinternet.com

ive kept his details and ip address details etc.. if anyone gets anything like this. ill notify bt 😉

[andie lines]

hi guys
yes i just had a virus too. it came in via an email attachment looking like a very convincing microsoft security alert. which like a twot i opened 😳 . damage done big time. but a friend put me on to a really neat site that has free virus and worm removal ‘tools’ which you can just download. saves a shed load of trouble cos i thought i was gonna have to reformat. if anyone wants details they can just email me, cos if i put the name up it might be construed as advertising!

[Henry Barker]

Just because you get a virus-infected mail from a company you recognise doesn’t mean they sent it to you, worms and viruses are very clever in searching your system for certain words or symbols like @ and then building their own addresses or headings with what they find, at one time about a month ago I was getting between 50-100 infected mails a day all with sign related businesses many from the UK, many I had never heard of, but just deleted them or let Norton auto-quarantine or auto-delete in the end as there were so many.

Virus protection is a must in our business where we are exchanging files all the time with customers and each other.

The mail address with uksignboards in it may also be quite innocent. I have a mail dump in other words I can have any namesigncraft.se so if I login on certáin sites or register myself or a product I sometimes make for instance Nikon Coolpix signcraft.se I then see if my address is sold on or given to other parties to bombard me with spam, or its easier to sort mail like that too.

I know he had @btinternet but you never know.

[Neil Kelly]

Did a full system scan with norten corporate but found nothing its a bit concerning that you got that mail Becky anyone got any ideas on what I can check next.

Neil….

[AaSk4Stickers]

Hi Neil

It may well be not you that sent the bugged e-mail. As Henry said nasty so and so’s with mis-placed IT skills can “create” an e-mail from your address.

A few weeks back I got some nasty e-mails from people who were peed off with spam e-mails amanating (they said) from the e-mail addresses on my website – but the e-mails were not sent by me.

The culprit “collects” e-mail addresses from newsroup postings, websites, bulletin boards and so on. My solution?
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[Martin C]

I’ve been getting loads of Spam mail for ‘Low Prescription Charges’ including Viagra!, the usual enlarge a certain part of your anatomy and a host of ‘Mucky Mature Mistress in Mud Bath Malarky’ ones too!!

Anyone know how I can filter the mail and just keep the good ones.. 😉

[Kevin.Beck]

neil, I wasn`t pionting the finger @ u.

[Tim Painter]

Norton Internet security now comes with some spam software now “AntiSpam”.
I believe it also comes as a stand alone product.

I’ve just ordered my upgrade to 2004 with all this junk & viruses that seam to be on the increase…well in my mail box atleast 😆

[Andrew Blackett]

Gray,

I read in a magazine article once that the best thing to do with spam is just delete it. The article said that by returning mail they knew there was someone receiving it and some “companies” (I use the term loosely) catch onto the fact that you regularly check your mail and simply send more.

Suppose theres two schools of thought on this one!

Andy