Virus alert

Frank Castle

Frank Castle

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Hi all,

I have recieved quite a few emails with no body and attached files. A no brianer not to open them.

I have also gotten 2 seperate emails from people who seem to think I emailed them a virus. They are not on my addy book & never heard of them.

Whats the deal do I have a virus? I scanned with updated list of Norton. All seems clear.

PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY RANDOM ATTACHMENTS FROM ME pearman81s@aol.com
 
Yeah,
I have been getting the same . . . all with notes in broken English saying to "look at this":barf: :barf: :barf:
 
Sometimes people fake those return mails in order to trick you to open them... I get a lot of them for my School e-mail account, but no one ever told me that I had a virus... of course I'm runnin NAV2002
 
My dad sent it to me as well from a DOD computer no less. I actually thought that he had sent me something as his notes are often very brief with a funny picture as the attachment.I opened it and BAM. I'm sure It automatically sent it to everyone in my Addy book. the next day my computer was FUBARed. I clicked on programs and nothing happened and later that day my everything was wiped from my computer except the Icons. Oh well it was time to reformat anyway. Unfortunately I lost some of the pictures of my sons first Easter Egg decorating party. Bummer.

Brandon
 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...ew__quot_klez_quot__still_clobbering_pc_users

The variant of the Klez worm, which started spreading early last week, arrives as an attachment to an e-mail message. While the virus doesn't harm data on a computer it infects, it can send out a random file from the PC as an attachment along with the e-mail that carries the worm, potentially leaking confidential information from an infected computer.

The worm randomly chooses a subject line from more than 100 possibilities, uses many different file names when attaching itself to a message and mails the messages off to e-mail addresses that it culls from files on the infected machine. In addition, Klez is able to "spoof," or replace, the sender's e-mail address with an address found on the infected PC.
 
A random file sending self propagating spoofing worm, gotta hate that.

Frank Castle the email people are getting might have used your address from someone else's address book to send itself. Part of the spoofability.

;)
 
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