[TheForge] More virus stuff

Andy Vida [email protected]
Tue Mar 23 10:20:02 2004


Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> 
> I received a message from Bruce Freeman yesterday saying that I sent him an
> infected message. At this point I'm pretty sure it is a mistake.  For a
> month now my ISP has been intercepting 2 or 3 messages a day infected with
> the NetSky virus.  I don't recognize the senders on the messages except for
> the time it said that I sent it to myself.  I use AVG which I keep up to
> date.  My ISP uses Macafee.  When the first notice came in I downloaded and
> ran the Norton /NetSky clean program and went out to HouseCall and scanned
> my systrem.  I think I'm protected and just ignore the notices now.
> 
> Hopefully now that more and more of the ISPs are starting to screen mail,
> the virus producers will run out of safe havens to operate from.

	I've been receiving some odd messages, all from people I don't 
	know, over the past several days.  I've assumed they are all
	results of viral activity and ignore them.