Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Please remember.. many many viruses.. send out of your address book also.. so just because it comes from someone you know.. doesnt mean that they sent it to you.. it could well be a virus.. so virus protection.. updated at least weekly .. is a good idea.. Serena ===== Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. Bill W __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Please remember.. many many viruses.. send out of your address book also.. so just because it comes from someone you know.. doesnt mean that they sent it to you.. it could well be a virus.. so virus protection.. updated at least weekly .. is a good idea.. Serena ===== Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. Bill W __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Rhonda, I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I know that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the subject line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open it. But the mail was from digitalangel. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Rhonda, I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I know that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the subject line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open it. But the mail was from digitalangel. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Rhonda, I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I know that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the subject line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open it. But the mail was from digitalangel. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Look in Urban Myths and you will fine out that this is not true. I am sorry but this was proven untrue quite a long time ago. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Look in Urban Myths and you will fine out that this is not true. I am sorry but this was proven untrue quite a long time ago. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Look in Urban Myths and you will fine out that this is not true. I am sorry but this was proven untrue quite a long time ago. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Thanks for letting me know. I'm scanning now. Really strange cause it gets scanned when they go out, too. What was in the subject line? >> Caught Ya! (hope this works) From what I understand you will find a blank message. I am going to rescan mine too just in case. I wanted to keep the message with the subject line so that I could get it to you. Norton caught it so I did not get the virus. I have been told (although I am not sure that this is not an Urban Myth) that some viruses can get past Norton. I for one don't believe it. I know that the mail is scanned when it goes out. I am on Biblio which is a list of booksellers mostly. That is where I heard about this virus and all the others that pop up. I trust them because their livelihood depends on making sure that they do not get viruses and pass them on to customers. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Thanks for letting me know. I'm scanning now. Really strange cause it gets scanned when they go out, too. What was in the subject line? >> Caught Ya! (hope this works) From what I understand you will find a blank message. I am going to rescan mine too just in case. I wanted to keep the message with the subject line so that I could get it to you. Norton caught it so I did not get the virus. I have been told (although I am not sure that this is not an Urban Myth) that some viruses can get past Norton. I for one don't believe it. I know that the mail is scanned when it goes out. I am on Biblio which is a list of booksellers mostly. That is where I heard about this virus and all the others that pop up. I trust them because their livelihood depends on making sure that they do not get viruses and pass them on to customers. Take care, Irene Books may well be the only true magic Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Somebody, I don't know from where, keeps sending me that snow white virus or one of those badtrans viruses. I am ever so glad that I have Norton. My mail is scanned when it comes in and when it goes out. It has caught several viruses coming in before they infected my system. I love the Norton, I don't have to worry about opening anything that may be a virus. Rhonda Virus > List mates, > > Be careful. There are quit a few viruses out there. If you don't have s > virus protector, please get on. If you can't get one, don't open any mail > with an attachment unless you know that it is coming and that you know who it > is. One that I know of has the subject line of Goner. They will be from an > unknown sender. > > > Irene > > Books may well be the only true magic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Somebody, I don't know from where, keeps sending me that snow white virus or one of those badtrans viruses. I am ever so glad that I have Norton. My mail is scanned when it comes in and when it goes out. It has caught several viruses coming in before they infected my system. I love the Norton, I don't have to worry about opening anything that may be a virus. Rhonda Virus > List mates, > > Be careful. There are quit a few viruses out there. If you don't have s > virus protector, please get on. If you can't get one, don't open any mail > with an attachment unless you know that it is coming and that you know who it > is. One that I know of has the subject line of Goner. They will be from an > unknown sender. > > > Irene > > Books may well be the only true magic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 A good way to know if you have been infected and can stop it b4 it goes to your friends is to put 0000! as your first email address in your address book. Nothing else no name etc. It will come up with an error right away if the virus tries to send it. AlyceAnn Please remember.. many many viruses.. send out of your address book also.. so just because it comes from someone you know.. doesnt mean that they sent it to you.. it could well be a virus.. so virus protection.. updated at least weekly .. is a good idea.. Serena ===== Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. Bill W __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 A good way to know if you have been infected and can stop it b4 it goes to your friends is to put 0000! as your first email address in your address book. Nothing else no name etc. It will come up with an error right away if the virus tries to send it. AlyceAnn Please remember.. many many viruses.. send out of your address book also.. so just because it comes from someone you know.. doesnt mean that they sent it to you.. it could well be a virus.. so virus protection.. updated at least weekly .. is a good idea.. Serena ===== Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. Bill W __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Not true. See below....................... Re: Virus > A good way to know if you have been infected and can stop it b4 it goes to your friends is to put 0000! as your first email address in your address book. Nothing else no name etc. It will come up with an error right away if the virus tries to send it. > AlyceAnn > Claim: Including a fake e-mail address of !0000 in your address book will prevent you from spreading any computer viruses you receive. Status: Not necessarily. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001] Here's a little trick you can use to stop the spread of pc viruses... Create a contact in your email address book with the name !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a " send all " on your contact list, your PC will pop up an error message saying that: " The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address. " You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have be sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your " Drafts " or " Outbox " folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus will not spread. Origins: This " helpful " bit of advice first appeared on the Internet in mid-August 2001. It purports to offer an easy-to-implement solution to counter the ongoing travails visited upon those foolish enough to have opened virus-laden e-mails by disarming the virus' ability to spread to others disguised as legitimate mail from the duped user. According to the advice, netizens need only add a bogus !0000, 0000, or 10000 entry in their e-mail address books to create an effective " shark account " that will gobble up unauthorized mailings to the full book. This trick will work somewhat, but it's not the panacea it's presented to be. Although the recommended action will help derail the spread of viruses designed to do a " send all, " it will not counter the many that randomly select individual addresses from a user's address book or supplement addresses harvested from that location with those found cached elsewhere on the system. (This method also assumes that if the first entry in a list of recipients is invalid, the message won't be sent to any of the recipients -- this is not necessarily true of all e-mail programs.) Faked entry or not, those who correspond with users infected with those sorts of viruses will be just as vulnerable as they ever were. Moreover, even those viruses whose spread has been halted via the ruse of a fake address book entry can still be doing damage to the infected user's system. Once an executable file has been opened and run, any virus it contains begins doing its dirty work. Part of that dirty work may amount to mailing itself to others, but if the virus it programmed to do more than just replicate itself via e-mail, it will still be present to wreak havoc on the infected computer. Deleting the infection-carrying e-mail will not halt whatever else may be underway. Only a fool takes advice that amounts to altering anything on his own system without first fully understanding its nature. Though the current " helpful trick " is innocuous, there is no guarantee later versions will not circulate that instruct the credulous to do harm to their systems under the guise of helping them. Witness the May 2001 sulfnbk.exe hysteria where thousands of users geared to take whatever advice turned up in their inboxes were duped into deleting a key Windows operating system file from their home systems. The best advice for countering viruses has always amounted to investing in good anti-virus software and using the product regularly to scan for infected files. Second best is a caution against running executable files sent in e-mail. Prurient or lustful curiousity often fuels the spread of those infections, as users who should by now know better open applications that promise videos of the McVeigh execution or naughty encounters featuring the latest media hotties. Peek not lest you lose, not your soul, but your hard drive. Barbara " monkey C:\, monkey lose " Mikkelson Last updated: 12 September 2001 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/virus/quickfix.htm Click here to e-mail this page to a friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Not true. See below....................... Re: Virus > A good way to know if you have been infected and can stop it b4 it goes to your friends is to put 0000! as your first email address in your address book. Nothing else no name etc. It will come up with an error right away if the virus tries to send it. > AlyceAnn > Claim: Including a fake e-mail address of !0000 in your address book will prevent you from spreading any computer viruses you receive. Status: Not necessarily. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001] Here's a little trick you can use to stop the spread of pc viruses... Create a contact in your email address book with the name !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a " send all " on your contact list, your PC will pop up an error message saying that: " The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address. " You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have be sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your " Drafts " or " Outbox " folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus will not spread. Origins: This " helpful " bit of advice first appeared on the Internet in mid-August 2001. It purports to offer an easy-to-implement solution to counter the ongoing travails visited upon those foolish enough to have opened virus-laden e-mails by disarming the virus' ability to spread to others disguised as legitimate mail from the duped user. According to the advice, netizens need only add a bogus !0000, 0000, or 10000 entry in their e-mail address books to create an effective " shark account " that will gobble up unauthorized mailings to the full book. This trick will work somewhat, but it's not the panacea it's presented to be. Although the recommended action will help derail the spread of viruses designed to do a " send all, " it will not counter the many that randomly select individual addresses from a user's address book or supplement addresses harvested from that location with those found cached elsewhere on the system. (This method also assumes that if the first entry in a list of recipients is invalid, the message won't be sent to any of the recipients -- this is not necessarily true of all e-mail programs.) Faked entry or not, those who correspond with users infected with those sorts of viruses will be just as vulnerable as they ever were. Moreover, even those viruses whose spread has been halted via the ruse of a fake address book entry can still be doing damage to the infected user's system. Once an executable file has been opened and run, any virus it contains begins doing its dirty work. Part of that dirty work may amount to mailing itself to others, but if the virus it programmed to do more than just replicate itself via e-mail, it will still be present to wreak havoc on the infected computer. Deleting the infection-carrying e-mail will not halt whatever else may be underway. Only a fool takes advice that amounts to altering anything on his own system without first fully understanding its nature. Though the current " helpful trick " is innocuous, there is no guarantee later versions will not circulate that instruct the credulous to do harm to their systems under the guise of helping them. Witness the May 2001 sulfnbk.exe hysteria where thousands of users geared to take whatever advice turned up in their inboxes were duped into deleting a key Windows operating system file from their home systems. The best advice for countering viruses has always amounted to investing in good anti-virus software and using the product regularly to scan for infected files. Second best is a caution against running executable files sent in e-mail. Prurient or lustful curiousity often fuels the spread of those infections, as users who should by now know better open applications that promise videos of the McVeigh execution or naughty encounters featuring the latest media hotties. Peek not lest you lose, not your soul, but your hard drive. Barbara " monkey C:\, monkey lose " Mikkelson Last updated: 12 September 2001 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/virus/quickfix.htm Click here to e-mail this page to a friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Not true. See below....................... Re: Virus > A good way to know if you have been infected and can stop it b4 it goes to your friends is to put 0000! as your first email address in your address book. Nothing else no name etc. It will come up with an error right away if the virus tries to send it. > AlyceAnn > Claim: Including a fake e-mail address of !0000 in your address book will prevent you from spreading any computer viruses you receive. Status: Not necessarily. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001] Here's a little trick you can use to stop the spread of pc viruses... Create a contact in your email address book with the name !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a " send all " on your contact list, your PC will pop up an error message saying that: " The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address. " You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have be sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your " Drafts " or " Outbox " folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus will not spread. Origins: This " helpful " bit of advice first appeared on the Internet in mid-August 2001. It purports to offer an easy-to-implement solution to counter the ongoing travails visited upon those foolish enough to have opened virus-laden e-mails by disarming the virus' ability to spread to others disguised as legitimate mail from the duped user. According to the advice, netizens need only add a bogus !0000, 0000, or 10000 entry in their e-mail address books to create an effective " shark account " that will gobble up unauthorized mailings to the full book. This trick will work somewhat, but it's not the panacea it's presented to be. Although the recommended action will help derail the spread of viruses designed to do a " send all, " it will not counter the many that randomly select individual addresses from a user's address book or supplement addresses harvested from that location with those found cached elsewhere on the system. (This method also assumes that if the first entry in a list of recipients is invalid, the message won't be sent to any of the recipients -- this is not necessarily true of all e-mail programs.) Faked entry or not, those who correspond with users infected with those sorts of viruses will be just as vulnerable as they ever were. Moreover, even those viruses whose spread has been halted via the ruse of a fake address book entry can still be doing damage to the infected user's system. Once an executable file has been opened and run, any virus it contains begins doing its dirty work. Part of that dirty work may amount to mailing itself to others, but if the virus it programmed to do more than just replicate itself via e-mail, it will still be present to wreak havoc on the infected computer. Deleting the infection-carrying e-mail will not halt whatever else may be underway. Only a fool takes advice that amounts to altering anything on his own system without first fully understanding its nature. Though the current " helpful trick " is innocuous, there is no guarantee later versions will not circulate that instruct the credulous to do harm to their systems under the guise of helping them. Witness the May 2001 sulfnbk.exe hysteria where thousands of users geared to take whatever advice turned up in their inboxes were duped into deleting a key Windows operating system file from their home systems. The best advice for countering viruses has always amounted to investing in good anti-virus software and using the product regularly to scan for infected files. Second best is a caution against running executable files sent in e-mail. Prurient or lustful curiousity often fuels the spread of those infections, as users who should by now know better open applications that promise videos of the McVeigh execution or naughty encounters featuring the latest media hotties. Peek not lest you lose, not your soul, but your hard drive. Barbara " monkey C:\, monkey lose " Mikkelson Last updated: 12 September 2001 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/virus/quickfix.htm Click here to e-mail this page to a friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Very interesting. I guess I'm going to have to change my password again. When my daughter is on my computer and a virus warning pops up, she ignores it!!! She probably just closed the warning and did nothing about the damn thing! Thanks for letting me know. I'm scanning now. Really strange cause it get's scanned when they go out, too. What was in the subject line? Rhonda > Re: Virus > > > > Rhonda, > > > > I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I > know > > that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the > subject > > line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open > it. > > But the mail was from digitalangel. > > > > Take care, > > Irene > > > > Books may well be the only true magic > > Alice Hoffman > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Very interesting. I guess I'm going to have to change my password again. When my daughter is on my computer and a virus warning pops up, she ignores it!!! She probably just closed the warning and did nothing about the damn thing! Thanks for letting me know. I'm scanning now. Really strange cause it get's scanned when they go out, too. What was in the subject line? Rhonda > Re: Virus > > > > Rhonda, > > > > I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I > know > > that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the > subject > > line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open > it. > > But the mail was from digitalangel. > > > > Take care, > > Irene > > > > Books may well be the only true magic > > Alice Hoffman > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Very interesting. I guess I'm going to have to change my password again. When my daughter is on my computer and a virus warning pops up, she ignores it!!! She probably just closed the warning and did nothing about the damn thing! Thanks for letting me know. I'm scanning now. Really strange cause it get's scanned when they go out, too. What was in the subject line? Rhonda > Re: Virus > > > > Rhonda, > > > > I received an email message with your name on it and it was a virus. I > know > > that Norton take care of viruses but I did not open it as it had the > subject > > line one that was a virus. So I knew that even with Norton not to open > it. > > But the mail was from digitalangel. > > > > Take care, > > Irene > > > > Books may well be the only true magic > > Alice Hoffman > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Oh hell Irene, that wasn't a virus! That was a goofy internet snowball fight! LOL I sent it to several people and no one else told me that it was a virus. That's strange that Norton said it was cause when I got it, it didn't!?? Rhonda Re: Virus > Caught Ya! (hope this works) From what I understand you will find a blank > message. I am going to rescan mine too just in case. I wanted to keep the > message with the subject line so that I could get it to you. Norton caught > it so I did not get the virus. I have been told (although I am not sure that > this is not an Urban Myth) that some viruses can get past Norton. I for one > don't believe it. I know that the mail is scanned when it goes out. I am on > Biblio which is a list of booksellers mostly. That is where I heard about > this virus and all the others that pop up. I trust them because their > livelihood depends on making sure that they do not get viruses and pass them > on to customers. > > Take care, > Irene > > Books may well be the only true magic > Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Come to think of it, this wasn't even supposed to go to this list! I know this list doesn't except anything like what I sent, I must have clicked the addy by accident cause I sent it to both the groups above and below this addy in my address book. Sorry about that! Rhonda Re: Virus > > Caught Ya! (hope this works) From what I understand you will find a blank > message. I am going to rescan mine too just in case. I wanted to keep the > message with the subject line so that I could get it to you. Norton caught > it so I did not get the virus. I have been told (although I am not sure that > this is not an Urban Myth) that some viruses can get past Norton. I for one > don't believe it. I know that the mail is scanned when it goes out. I am on > Biblio which is a list of booksellers mostly. That is where I heard about > this virus and all the others that pop up. I trust them because their > livelihood depends on making sure that they do not get viruses and pass them > on to customers. > > Take care, > Irene > > Books may well be the only true magic > Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Come to think of it, this wasn't even supposed to go to this list! I know this list doesn't except anything like what I sent, I must have clicked the addy by accident cause I sent it to both the groups above and below this addy in my address book. Sorry about that! Rhonda Re: Virus > > Caught Ya! (hope this works) From what I understand you will find a blank > message. I am going to rescan mine too just in case. I wanted to keep the > message with the subject line so that I could get it to you. Norton caught > it so I did not get the virus. I have been told (although I am not sure that > this is not an Urban Myth) that some viruses can get past Norton. I for one > don't believe it. I know that the mail is scanned when it goes out. I am on > Biblio which is a list of booksellers mostly. That is where I heard about > this virus and all the others that pop up. I trust them because their > livelihood depends on making sure that they do not get viruses and pass them > on to customers. > > Take care, > Irene > > Books may well be the only true magic > Alice Hoffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Hi Rhonda Laughter is the best medicine :-) Will you please email the snowball fight to me? I love those kind of things. lyndi@... Silly Lyndi DigitalAngel wrote: > Oh hell Irene, that wasn't a virus! That was a goofy internet snowball > fight! LOL I sent it to several people and no one else told me that it > was a virus. That's strange that Norton said it was cause when I got it, it > didn't!?? > > Rhonda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Hi Rhonda Laughter is the best medicine :-) Will you please email the snowball fight to me? I love those kind of things. lyndi@... Silly Lyndi DigitalAngel wrote: > Oh hell Irene, that wasn't a virus! That was a goofy internet snowball > fight! LOL I sent it to several people and no one else told me that it > was a virus. That's strange that Norton said it was cause when I got it, it > didn't!?? > > Rhonda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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