[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.