[Dx-qsl] Virus

Sat Oct 5 05:14:00 2002

I have received 15 viruses so far Today  7.05pm Local time.....
They are Not all the same viruses...
Be careful....
Lee VK2LEE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Brandstetter" <[email protected]>
To: "DX-QSL" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] Virus

> Hello from Vienna !
>
> Todays morning I got an email from my email address (???) with an very old
> text I have sent 2 years ago to the DX-QSL reflector and its sure that I
> don't have this text or email any more on my PC. Normally some viruses
take
> some random text from the harddisc and use it in the email to which the
> virus is attached. But in this case this inpossible. On the other hand I
> have scanned my PC yesterday 3 times after receiving emails (about 20 !!)
> with a virus to be sure. All its clean and I used the virus definitions
from
> 4. October 2002 with my AVP scanner.
>
> So please be careful, but its sure the email with the virus is not sent
out
> from my PC. Never a virus (like the I-Worm types) sends itself to the
> infected PC. I have never seen this. But I think its enough for this time,
I
> got about 30 or 40 emails infected in the last 3 days, but they where all
> blocked. And I use Netscape email and not Microsoft Outlook which is used
> for looking in the address book. I have no Outlook addressbook.
>
> So again, please be careful. I cannot say which virus it was, because I
use
> programm for reading in times like this (when its "Virus Time") as text
file
> direct from the server and do not download it with my email program. The
> program I use for it is an email notifier named "Magic Mail Monitor Vers.
> 2.8" and its very useful as i see the name, source and size of the email
> before I load it from the server with an email program. All the infected
> emails in the last days had a size of about 50 kB or more.
>
> Excuse plese this off topic email to this group !
> Kurt
> --
> 73 de Kurt OE 1002419          ICQ-UIN 43074273
> CCA member AC01-01249 NCDXF #4175  INDEXA #1720
> Homepage: http://www.swl.net/oe1002419
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> The latest QSL's I've received at my homepage:
> Use link "Latest QSL cards arrived at my postbox"
> ZS7/ZS4AGA; 70/OH2AA; XR0X; ZL/PA0MIR (OC-203); T88DX
> ZW5T (SA-026); XR2D (SA-086); YJ0AHK; HL0Y/3; IY0GM
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