I'm sick of viruses
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Re: Re: I'm sick of viruses
I get this Malious code found file deleted, you have x number of infected files. Beats me.
Good thing for my anti virus, no I'm not infected, how I get so many is a mystery.gsobier said:Peter:
You need help big time... ...how on earth are you getting so many
Regards,
George
I get this Malious code found file deleted, you have x number of infected files. Beats me.
Re: Re: Re: I'm sick of viruses
Peter:
Ya know how some guys are a chick magnet, you are a magnet of another kind
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Regards,
George
Peter:
Ya know how some guys are a chick magnet, you are a magnet of another kind
.Regards,
George
peter said:Good thing for my anti virus, no I'm not infected, how I get so many is a mystery.
I get this Malious code found file deleted, you have x number of infected files. Beats me.
You probably used your email addy a few times (or even once) to sign up to something and it has since been "harvested" and is now part of multiple mass-mail lists.
Just about a month ago, I used a new email addy to sign up to a newsgroup. That is the only place I ever used it. After about a week, I started receiving "Your email could not be delivered" confirmations, with a virus attachment, back at that new address. That's how fast my new address was harvested and used to mass mail worms/viruses.
Half the spiders that you see crawling the site here are probably legit - Inktomi, Google, MSN, etc... The rest are probably harvesting email addresses. It's become a part of life and there is little we can do.
I would suggest getting a new email address for personal use only and another email address for online sign-ups. Even then, all it takes is for one of your friends to send an email to a list of friends and your address to be included in that list, and somewhere along the way that email lands on an infected system, and your security cycle is broken all over again.
All in all, life sucks.
Just about a month ago, I used a new email addy to sign up to a newsgroup. That is the only place I ever used it. After about a week, I started receiving "Your email could not be delivered" confirmations, with a virus attachment, back at that new address. That's how fast my new address was harvested and used to mass mail worms/viruses.
Half the spiders that you see crawling the site here are probably legit - Inktomi, Google, MSN, etc... The rest are probably harvesting email addresses. It's become a part of life and there is little we can do.
I would suggest getting a new email address for personal use only and another email address for online sign-ups. Even then, all it takes is for one of your friends to send an email to a list of friends and your address to be included in that list, and somewhere along the way that email lands on an infected system, and your security cycle is broken all over again.
All in all, life sucks.
Brad
Member
Is e-mail the source?
I've been using MailWasher which lets you screen and delete mails before they reach your PC.
It's free if used on one mail account, it works well for me.
I've been using MailWasher which lets you screen and delete mails before they reach your PC.
It's free if used on one mail account, it works well for me.
I won't be installing SP2 just yet. Just in case it is followed (after public release) by SP2.1, SP2.2, etc. All the more since major players like IBM are telling their employees to hold off (link). I'll give it at least a month.
PETER---Virus
Same thing happening to me. I thought had done everything. I use Google toolbar for popup blocks..Norton which I update each time I fire up...AdAware and Spybot to get rid of nasties. But I sure get some dandy drug sales pitches. (wink wink )
Seriously Peter there are several sites that will scan your system for free. Pandasoft is one that is very reputable. Shamed to admit but I get a lot of info from Kim Kommando website.
Good Luck
Same thing happening to me. I thought had done everything. I use Google toolbar for popup blocks..Norton which I update each time I fire up...AdAware and Spybot to get rid of nasties. But I sure get some dandy drug sales pitches. (wink wink )
Seriously Peter there are several sites that will scan your system for free. Pandasoft is one that is very reputable. Shamed to admit but I get a lot of info from Kim Kommando website.
Good Luck