I never get such messages on my Linux box. What gives?

Hi all,

Well, today I received a message from "noreply@classiczcars.com" and a copy is at the bottom of this message.

I DID NOT SEND AND WILL NEVER SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE CLUB MEMBERS. PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS IN YOUR EMAIL!!!

I do not have a virus, neither does our server. Something or someone is acting on behalf of the club and sending the virus.

These email viruses are a pain in the #$@$!!! I have been getting many messages with .ZIP files attached to them and it's driving me nuts.

Here's the message I received. If you get anything like this, do

NOT open the attachment. And, please let me know if you get this kind of message. I am trying to track this so we can kick some tail.

-- Mike

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Dear user of "Classiczcars.com" mailing system,

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information.

Pay attention on attached file.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "85362".

The Management,

The Classiczcars.com team http://www.classiczcars.com

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<< Attachment: Info.zip DELETED >>

Hey Mike, I read on zdnet.com Monday that a new virus called "NetSky" is attacking the entire world. It comes as a ".gif" attachment and text of message is usually like "Here is your file" or something very similiar. I personally had 8 e-mails from different people and they all were trying to send the exact attachment. thank goodness for antivirus. The virus replicates itself if opened and clogs up email and hard drive.

I, too, have had a similar email recently.

How can you protect yourself ?

1) Use an Internet Firwall

2) Always update to the latest security/patches from your vendor. This is especially important for Windows XP users.

3) Use a virus scanner.

4) Use a virus scanner.

5) Use a virus scanner.

Any virus scanner should also have the ability to protect your email as well. You can find a good virus scanner at Symantec.

Check your PC for security risks.

Check the latest list of viruses in the world by clicking HERE.

I got hit 3 times in one day with a MyMail varient.

I'd like to get my hands on the people that are starting all these viruses.:devious:

Microsoft also has some information about how to protect yourself:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

There are several variants of this going around our campus right now, all acting like they are coming from our local servers. Apparently it is a variant of the "Bagle-worm".

While this may not help individuals my company recently moved to using an outside source to process our e-mail:

http://www.messagelabs.com/home/default.asp

The idea is that all incoming and outgoing mail goes through them. They charge something like $4/month per user. They filter out spam and viruses. To give you an idea of the effectiveness, in the last week they filtered out over 22000 spam e-mails and over 100 virus e-mails. You simply never see them which not only protects you and saves you time deleting the garbage but also saves you bandwidth because it never comes to your mail server.

Thanks for the tip MikeW. It was important to individuals as I maintain a 15 PC network at my shop with 15 different email addresses. Great tip!

I was getting emails with subjects like "Re: your question" or "Returned mail: badd addressee"

I noticed they usually have some file attached, so they go to the bit-bin straight away. The subjects are cleverly worded to get you to read the message and even open the attachment. Just getting them prooves that there are people dumb enough to actually open the attachments!

For me, if it's not from my gf or sister or bro, or somebody I know and expect a message from, it goes to the bit-bin!

Why take a chance? You can even do the same stuff with your smail: if it's not from your bank, utilities, church, family, credit car provider, it goes in the TRASH!

Especially political stuff. Isn't this an election year? (oh no...)

Mike,

I got the same type of message this morning purporting to be from our corporate headquarters. Since any message about viruses would come from our IT department and not from management and no message containing a zip attachment would have the password contained inside the same message, I isolated and then deleted it. This could be a bad one.

I get about 30 of these darn virus emails a day....... not happy!

This classiczcars one looks pretty decently done too, I can see how someone may open it thinking it was legit...