In article ,
"Frank Dresser" writes:


Yes, but I think antivirus software will become less and less useful as more
and more computers get high speed connections.

- Still, if you set your e-mail to

"Download attachments separatly"

it'll save you some grief..

Anyway, a little paranoia is a good thing in this case. Thankfully, there's
no shortage of that here on rec.radio.shortwave.

Wear a NEW aluminum foil hat..
Big shiny one with a Hubcap on top
- That fixes em!

Haven't been abducted by an Alien yet ..


Dan ( Sticking to 56 KB dial - up... )

I am getting 40-50 a day, more in overnights (this morning my email was
already maxed out!)

Jack said:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:33:05 GMT, "Warpcore" wrote:

No, but I got three emails with viral attachments addressed as if they were
actually from Microsoft.

Got that one, and another variant so far:

--------------------
FROM: "Net Mail Delivery Service"
TO: "Internet Receiver"
SUBJECT: Bug Letter

Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="eleswgt.exe"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Id: vwpiniyrr

TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA
snip
--------------------

Do not open the message - delete it.

Ya know, If I hadn't seen this thread, I would have simply deleteted
the messages without even a cursory glance -- as spam. You just made
me curious.

I *love* my ancient outdated email client that doesn't understand HTML
and isn't able to open attachments, automatically or otherwise, simply
displaying their raw ASCII content in the message body. g

I second that motion!

I read e-mail with a 1995 version of Eudora Lite.
I use Agent for usenet only.
I never install any of the Outlook bull****.

The only good thing about M$ dominance is that it provides a huge
number of victims for the virus writers and crackerz. They focus on
the latest useless M$ all-in-one swinging door and leave the rest of
us alone.

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

In article ,
says...

Jack said:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:33:05 GMT, "Warpcore" wrote:

No, but I got three emails with viral attachments addressed as if they
were
actually from Microsoft.

Got that one, and another variant so far:

--------------------
FROM: "Net Mail Delivery Service"
TO: "Internet Receiver"
SUBJECT: Bug Letter

Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="eleswgt.exe"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Id: vwpiniyrr

TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA
AA
snip
--------------------

Do not open the message - delete it.

Ya know, If I hadn't seen this thread, I would have simply deleteted
the messages without even a cursory glance -- as spam. You just made
me curious.

I *love* my ancient outdated email client that doesn't understand HTML
and isn't able to open attachments, automatically or otherwise, simply
displaying their raw ASCII content in the message body. g

I second that motion!

I read e-mail with a 1995 version of Eudora Lite.
I use Agent for usenet only.
I never install any of the Outlook bull****.

The only good thing about M$ dominance is that it provides a huge
number of victims for the virus writers and crackerz. They focus on
the latest useless M$ all-in-one swinging door and leave the rest of
us alone.

I agree. I use old software because the viruses are all aimed
at the newest stuff. Blaster worms and the like may crash
computers all over the world, but they don't touch mine.

^_^

FW

I've had these things at a rate of 3 or 4 a day for months. Yesterday, I got
about 300.
"Larry Ozarow" wrote in message
...
Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.
There's mention of it on the McAfee site and a blurb at
www.theregister.co.uk

"I. P. Yurin" wrote:

Jack said:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:33:05 GMT, "Warpcore" wrote:

Ya know, If I hadn't seen this thread, I would have simply deleteted
the messages without even a cursory glance -- as spam. You just made
me curious.

I *love* my ancient outdated email client that doesn't understand HTML
and isn't able to open attachments, automatically or otherwise, simply
displaying their raw ASCII content in the message body. g

I second that motion!

I read e-mail with a 1995 version of Eudora Lite.
I use Agent for usenet only.
I never install any of the Outlook bull****.

The only good thing about M$ dominance is that it provides a huge
number of victims for the virus writers and crackerz. They focus on
the latest useless M$ all-in-one swinging door and leave the rest of
us alone.

I'm another ancient Eudora user. No not me, the email program. :-) It
doesn't have a clue what to do with an attachment other than putting it
in the designated attachment directory, awaiting further inspection by
me. I just delete them unless I'm expecting a specific attachment from
someone I know. I've been on the Net for about 8-years without any virus
protection software and have never had a virus or worm installed on my
system.


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In article , Jack
writes:

Anti-virus software has caught a few potential problems
here several times.

Agree.. Updated Virus software & firewalls are for me.

Having been in DP for decades, I have seen the little icon holding a gremlin
( caught a Virus) once too often...

- Or had a frantic call from a freind who'se hard drive was wiped out..

" You have received an Instakiss"

- isn't that sweet . .

Then I go back to the 80's as a BBS sysop

Wow! I had almost forgot, those were the good old days, Commodore 64 and all.



Rob Mills ~~~

The 64's and 128's served me well until 1994

They were reliable. Think I bailed out in 89 or 90. I had a C128/1084 monitor
and four 1571 drives, thought I was strolling in tall cotton the first time I
connected with a bulletin board.



Rob Mills ~~~