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Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Notice on Email

If you get an email with an attachment that uses either my blog email address or the webmail address I use for the iMood thing, it is NOT from me! Delete it and do not open the attachment!

I'm sure you know about this virus that keeps sending .pif attachments. (I can't remember the name of the virus right now.) I've gotten a bunch on my webmail address. Some of them were using the email addresses of several well-known bloggers. Others were using email addresses from Fox News and other media outlets. I also got one that bounced from someone else's mailbox -- it was apparently using my webmail address.

So be careful...update your virus software and just say no to attachments!

Comments

It's probably either the LovSan or SoBig virus, the firt of which infected my parents' computer. I got rid of it tonight using a Symantec tool, and installed the MS patch. But they get so much spam I'm still worried.

Posted on August 26, 2003 at 2:29 AM

Bill,

Yes, Sobig was the name that escaped me when I posted this. From what I understand, an infected machine will harvest email addresses from any website visited and spoof that address to send more infected emails. Nasty stuff...

Posted on August 26, 2003 at 5:43 PM



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