viruses

[Harry Edwards]

Michael,

I have an eMac with the latest Norton Antivirus software. I scanned my 
computer earlier this afternoon,
and it is uninfected.

I do not use Outlook Express. I use the Apple browser, Safari and 
Everyone's Internet for email.

My tech support human sez that if someone is using e-addresses from my 
address book, I would be
getting "Message Undeliverable" error messages.

I only notify AGL as a precaution.

Harry




On Jul 10, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> Harry,
>
> I think you have an infected computer because
> no one else is receiving these viruses.
>
> I think what is happening is that your computer
> unbeknownst to you has a malicious program
> installed which has access to your address
> book, probably in Outlook Express, and is
> periodically sending out viruses to the
> addresses in the address book.
>
> On a possibly related subject, I discarded
> 3 viruses 2 days ago which had been
> automatically flagged to me by the pairlist.net
> software. One of the viruses showed the
> sender's address to be
> ghetto2-owner@whathelps....
>
> Harry, are you using Outlook Express? This
> popular email program is known to get infected
> by various malicious viruses or worms which
> replicate by using the host's address book.
>
> Is austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net one of the
> addresses in your address book?
>
> You write: > They have all come through AGL
>
> Look a little closer. You will see that they DONT
> come from austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net,
> rather they are coming from
> austin-ghetto-list-administrator@pairlist.net
>
> This would be an automatic bounce by the
> pairlist.net software back to the sender of
> an email with a virus in it. That's why only
> you are receiving your own email bouncing
> back to you. And why no one else is receiving
> them.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mike the manager
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf@ev1.net>
> To: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:09 AM
> Subject: viruses
>
>
>> Beware all you ghetto survivors.
>>
>> In less than 3 hours, I've received 4 different virus mails (from 9:28
>> pm yesterday to 12:14 this morning).
>>
>> They have all come through AGL and have had the addresses of Wayne
>> Johnson, Margot McGann, and Powell, among others. Subjects were: "New
>> Changes, " "Document," "Hello," and "Hi."
>>
>> Watch out for the ones with attachments and no text.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Harry
>>
>
>