im telling ya this poor virus is the most polite virus iv seen in a while....

I think I just topped the record for receiving spam mail. When I logged in this morning I had 22 thousand 4 hundred and 86 spam messages in my inbox. Had to phone my server to delete them.

22 THOUSAND?! You've been mailbombed my friend.

craeonics can't come to the phone right now: some virus made him wipe out his drive, so he has to fix that

i had to dig for this thread. thought i'd bring it back with a bit of cutionary info. i'm norton-religious, but i sat down at my desk this morning to find an email in my box generated from an 'anti-virus administrator' saying a message attempting to be sent from my personal email addie (which comes through this box as well as my groupwise work addie) had been blocked because of a virus called Worm.SCO.A , in an email called 'test' that was going to some guy @gettaphone.com . i heard SCO got hit pretty hard this weekend from MYDOOM. anyway, this was DISPITE A FULL SYSTEM SCAN run on friday night that turned up nothing. so i updated and i'm scanning now but this thing made it through my corporate nets and then my own net (i'm the only one here who uses updated anti-virus software). so keep your eyes open, fellas. i'll let you know what my fullscan turns up. i'm also curious if this looks like clever ruse. it says it comes from 'system anti-virus administrator . and host-rocket is just some domain retailer. until my IT guys come in to verify this is a domain they recognize, anyone have any insight?


Attention: ### @mverzella.com


A virus was found in an Email message you sent.
The Email Scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message
from reaching its destination.

The virus was reported to be:

Worm.SCO.A


Please update your virus scanner/signatures or contact your local
IT support personnel as soon as possible. As you may have a virus
or a Trojan program installed on your system. For any questions
regarding the virus policies of this network, please contact
HostRocket.com Support Personnel. Support may be contacted via
Email at support.com or through the support website
located at http://www.rocketsupport.com.


Your message was sent with the following envelope:

MAIL FROM: ### @mverzella.com
RCPT TO: ### @gettaphone.com

... and with the following headers:

---
MAILFROM: ### @mverzella.com
Received: from pcp01640074pcs.rocsth01.mi.comcast.net (HELO mverzella.com) (##.##.###.###)
by mx3.hrnoc.net with SMTP; 1 Feb 2004 23:11:14 -0000
From: ### @mverzella.com
To: ### @gettaphone.com
Subject: Test
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:11:33 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_5A2E6264.07AD1DE8"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal


---

update.. IT guys at work say its possible this slipped through someone's nets a week ago and circulated around an exchange server, but that its most likely a hoax. my second scan turned up nothing so i'm ok.

i think more than any thing. fear is the biggest part of the recent virus upriseing. some gumbys will try to cash in on this fear. the best anyone can do is keep their antivirus updated and grin and bear it. keep every thing backed up, and relax. the biggest thing ive read that motivates virus makers is the panick they create (it gives them the illusion of power)..
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hehheh.. i picture the norton guy standing on a mountain of monitors yelling 'i have the power!!!'

hehehe caddy u are 1 sik puppy...no wonder i like u

heres a link to an easy test for the mydoom viruses, and some help on how to deal with them.. http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp
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