MavMan You've got a virus!

Discussion in 'General Maverick/Comet' started by GrabberMan, May 10, 2002.

  1. GrabberMan

    GrabberMan Member

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    If there is someone here using the EMail Mavman, I have been getting virus containing email from you.

    You may want to scan your computer!
     
  2. littleredtoy

    littleredtoy Seth

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    Virus

    That worm klez virus crashed our desktop at home.
    It apparently peeks into your address book and sends
    itself to people you know or have sent or received e-mails from.
    Mine was the ...'Look at my beautiful girlfriend'... virus.
    It came addressed from Craig Selvey, but Craig didn't send it. I opened it thinking maybe Selvey had sent me a picture, but he didn't know anything about it.
    It has the power top disable your antivirus software
    if it has not been updated to handle this particular
    virus.
    I had to have the hard drive erased and reformatted....
    So, Watch out and update those anti-virus programs!

    Seth
     
  3. Rick Book

    Rick Book Member

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    I use a no-frills (but good) free anti-virus program call AVG. It hasn't let me down yet.

    The "no-frills" free version will only update when you invoke the command. I stay on top of this and all has been well (so far).


    You can download it at

    http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm


    Good Luck,

    Rick
     
  4. mavman

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    It was probably from me. I got the work_klez.h virus 4 times last week, cleaned it 4 times and it's still acting up. Had over 1700 infected files that had to be deleted. I wonder if anyone else would like to find the person who came up with the whole virus idea?
     
  5. Earl Branham

    Earl Branham Certified Old Fart

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    Yeah, just 5 minutes!!!

    Earl
     
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    Little red,
    that's how I got it, except it wasn't from Craig. It was from an old friend who I havent heard from in ages..subject line was "hi, how are you?" Of course I opened it...the problems started there. After wiping both drives and reinstalling both os's, we're back to "normal", if there is a such thing.
     

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