Virus Warning - All Members Please Read

[johnl]

Well said KOPBET.

 

[Gorgon]

If admins would have patched SQL and IIS, worms like slammer, code red wouldn't have been able to do what they did, regardless of whether it was Windows or Linux (slapper, scalper) that was the base OS.

And don't forget ... the Klez virus runs on Linux platforms now too! (along with ELF and others).

What really gets my goat is when people who get hit by a worm or virus that exploits a known vulnerability that has had a fix for several weeks or months (i.e code red), bashes MS to high heaven when they themselves failed to keep their own house in order by patching! [Step off soapbox].

Very well said. This is the very problem I have with many computer users and admins. They don't take the time to make sure their systems are up to date and then complain when they get compromised. Ironically, many have no idea that they are even compromised. That's the really scarey part.



Leon

 

[Ken]

I repeat...

Ok, we all know that I am a moron, but how on earth do I get rid of a message that's infected on the server but not downloaded yet. McAfee's VirusScan tells me that there is a tainted message, and that it's been deleted, but my mail just sits at the server and won't come to me. Every time Outlook goes to retrieve the mail, McAfee alerts me to a virus, but the message with a virus must be holding up delivery of the rest. It seems that I must delete it from the server before things will work again, but for the life of me I cannot remember how I remedied the situation the last time, and it was only a few weeks ago!

;help

 

[JrdnsEdu]

Ken- I do not have Mcafee (Norton user) but I went to their web page for ay and looked in their help contents. Maybe this will help?

They have a walk-thru drop down system called 'Answer Center'.


Configuring Account Properties in Version 2.9

Right-click on the SpamKiller icon by your system clock.
Click Open.
In the left pane, click Accounts.
In the right pane, click Properties.
The Account Properties window appears. Click the Events tab.
Select do not run any programs for all four event types.
Click OK.
Configuring Account Properties in Version 4.x

Right-click on the SpamKiller icon by your system clock.
Click Open.
In the left pane, click Accounts.
In the right pane, click Properties.
The Account Properties window appears. Click the Events tab.
Uncheck the box next to run e-mail program when new mail arrives.
Click OK.

 

[67HEAVEN]

Re: I repeat...

Well Ken, you could provide me with your Incoming eMail Server Address, your eMail User ID and your Password, and then I could blow it away.....

Better yet, call your ISP Tech Support line and have them do it for you.

 

[Ken]

Configuring Account Properties in Version 4.x

Right-click on the SpamKiller icon by your system clock.
Click Open.
In the left pane, click Accounts.
In the right pane, click Properties.
The Account Properties window appears. Click the Events tab.
Uncheck the box next to run e-mail program when new mail arrives.
Click OK.

That is the way I've always had it set up.

Bob, if tech doesn't get anywhere or rather, I can't get through to them, you'll be hearing from me. My mail keeps building up again just like the last time. I wish I could remember what it was that cleared it before.

Why did I ever get into the Internet??? If I could just get my hands around the throat of just ONE of the idiots that dreams this **** up (viruses), I swear I'd kill them!!!!!!! Why doesn't someone make an example of one of them?

 

[KOPBET]

Ken,

I'm not trying to be a smartass, but just turn of the AV until you get the mail and then delete it. Klez affects I.E 5.01 and 5.5. which I doubt you have. Check and be sure. Turn your AV back on afterwards.

 

[Ken]

Turn it off? In today's mood of distrust?? Are you sure of that? I'll do it if it's safe. :confused

 

[KOPBET]

3 questions:

Is your XP up to date?
Is your IE up to date?
Will you NOT open ANY attachments?

If you can answer yes to all of these then you will not be harmed by Klez.

 

[Ken]

Yep, yep and yep. I'll try it, thanks.

 

[Ken]

That worked. I told you I was a ****ing moron.

Thanks.

 

[KOPBET]

And all this time I thought FM stood for ****ing magic

 

[Rain]

Time to update again

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September 4, 2003

By KOMO Staff & News Services

SEATTLE - Those of you using Mac OS or Linux can relax this time, but those using MS Office on Windows, take note: Microsoft has issued some more security alerts.

Microsoft is reporting five new flaws in its software, including one of "critical" severity that affects nearly all programs in its Office suite of software.

The critical vulnerability could allow an attacker to read files on a victim's computer or run programs. To be successful a person would have to open a tainted email attachment.

The flaw appears in nearly all programs included in Microsoft Office 97, 2000 and XP (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access).

It also affects Visio 2000, 2002 and Project 2000 and 2002.

The other four vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Office, Access, Word and Windows, and include flaws of lower severity.

Microsoft has disclosed 38 security flaws so far this year.

For More Information:

microsoft.com

 

[bossvette]

My mcafee picked up several today, I deleted them. I would like to see one of those virus writers hung from a tall tree.

On a lighter note I got this virus warning today:

AFFECT THOSE BORN PRIOR TO 1960.
SYMPTOMS: Causes you to...
1. ...send the same e-mail twice
2. ...send a blank e-mail
3. ...send e-mail to the wrong person
4. ...send e-mail back to the person who sent it to you
5. ...forget to attach the attachment
6. ...hit "SEND" before you've finished
7. ...hit "DELETE" instead of "SEND"
8. ...hit "SEND" when you should hit "DELETE"
It's called ... the C-NILE VIRUS...

Now I know what has been affecting me
:duh

 

[Ken]

:L Craig, sounds like myself, why'd ya hafta single me out?

 

[bossvette]

.

why'd ya hafta single me out?

Ken
I am not singleing you out, I suffer from it also,as I am sure some others as well. I also have oldtimers disease, I go out to the barn to get a tool I need to do something in the house and forget what it was I needed then I have to go back in to see what I was doing, then hope I remember when I get back out at the barn what it was I wanted in the first place. Confusing to say the least
Craigsr

 

[Ken]

I realize that Craig, I was just joshin' ya.