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I-Worm.BadtransII
- Thread starter murat
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That's okay, but for some of the young dudes out there who are lurking, or members who think they won't get a virus, it is an important issue.
I have had so many of these pesky emails already!
If you see an email from a stranger with subject re:, file size 40k, just delete it without taking the time to open it.
Let's all band together and help put a stop to it
I have had so many of these pesky emails already!
If you see an email from a stranger with subject re:, file size 40k, just delete it without taking the time to open it.
Let's all band together and help put a stop to it
uh oh.... maybe LeX's txt file is a virus!
good luck to LeX now. :biggrin2:
Mailbox full of viruses
SirCam and BadTrans and Magistr and others all scan the browser cache of an infected machine in search of email addresses to send to.
In other words, if you have your email address on a popular web page, you have to cope with a constant stream of virus emails.
Me, I've gotten some 300 just in the last few weeks.
I guess it's a cost of having a web site from now on, along with all the spam.
SirCam and BadTrans and Magistr and others all scan the browser cache of an infected machine in search of email addresses to send to.
In other words, if you have your email address on a popular web page, you have to cope with a constant stream of virus emails.
Me, I've gotten some 300 just in the last few weeks.
I guess it's a cost of having a web site from now on, along with all the spam.
Re: Mailbox full of viruses
wow! 300! show us your experience with viruses...
My experience? I receive them and file them under "virus". I guess I have a pretty large collection, heh.
If I have any doubt about whether something's a virus, I forward the email to my university account; the virus screen there catches it (and gives the virus name) if it's a recognized infection.
The SirCam virus/worm sent me a lot of private documents, copied off hard drives, but I have not read them.
I should say that I read mail in Pine on a Unix box, so I'm not subject to these (mostly) MS-Outlook transmitted diseases.
As to the flood of BadTrans mail, I have decided to be somewhat responsible and send a boilerplate reply to each one alerting the user to the infection and pointing to Symantec's page on this virus: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html
Note that the virus inserts a leading underscore in the email address, so to reply, you have to remove the underscore. (I suspect the virus author did this so that users wouldn't be alerted to the infection by bounced emails.)
In October 2001, my site got a bit over 1.5 million hits (about a million page views), so there are a lot of systems out there with stuff from my site sitting in browser caches for viruses to find. I guess it would be worse yet if I hadn't taken my email address out of the page footer (it used to be on EVERY page).
If I have any doubt about whether something's a virus, I forward the email to my university account; the virus screen there catches it (and gives the virus name) if it's a recognized infection.
The SirCam virus/worm sent me a lot of private documents, copied off hard drives, but I have not read them.
I should say that I read mail in Pine on a Unix box, so I'm not subject to these (mostly) MS-Outlook transmitted diseases.
As to the flood of BadTrans mail, I have decided to be somewhat responsible and send a boilerplate reply to each one alerting the user to the infection and pointing to Symantec's page on this virus: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html
Note that the virus inserts a leading underscore in the email address, so to reply, you have to remove the underscore. (I suspect the virus author did this so that users wouldn't be alerted to the infection by bounced emails.)
In October 2001, my site got a bit over 1.5 million hits (about a million page views), so there are a lot of systems out there with stuff from my site sitting in browser caches for viruses to find. I guess it would be worse yet if I hadn't taken my email address out of the page footer (it used to be on EVERY page).
