To whomever keeps emailing me viruses...

by **soupy** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 5:17 am

You're wasting your time. I update my virus definitions daily, so you're not going to sneak anything past me.

Just give it up. :roll:

by **ajzchips** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:36 am

Soupy, I get them too. Th has also confirmed he gets them too.
There must be some kind of script "somewhere" that scans sites for email addresses (ours are publicly available here) and starts sending virus-infected spam mail...

by **edwin** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:53 am

If your email addy is in someones address book you're bound to get infected emails, some viruses set up their own SMTP server on the victims machine, collect the email addresses and start to send like mad.

The latest Klez variants are doing things like this, there are more. Klez is spreading rapidly:
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/dcforum/computer/38586.html
and some figures plus removal tools:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .e@mm.html

real-time:
http://wtc.trendmicro.com/wtc/

by **soupy** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 4:19 pm

No, this one is personal, I think. He's sending me email from "wb@wimsbios.com" and "support@unicore.com", etc etc. He's also relaying through a promiscuous server.

It's possible the script takes all the addresses from one site and uses them to email the other addresses, but why waste the time, either way?

by th » Sat May 04, 2002 9:37 am

I think, it's the Klez-virus, still.
I get mail infected viruses where the sender _should_ be ajz, m$, borland etc.

So, just anything with an attachment goes down the drain.
Pretty easy with Webmail accounts.
No problem for me with POP/SMTP also,because I using my RiscPC here :-)

Bye
Thomas