Virus Alert!

Hey Jim,

No sweat. I would rather be safe than sorry---so thanks for the heads up.

And if you are one of those know-it-all a**holes giving Jim a hard time, may
Santa poop in your stocking!!

Paul in OK.


Interesting. I didn't see that warning earlier. I guess the joke is on
me.

Sorry, all.
--
Jim in NC

Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:17:31 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote in :


On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:29:29 +0100, Stefan
wrote:


Larry Dighera schrieb:


That will only affect those users who are ignorant enough to run
e-mail client program that automatically opens links embedded within
e-mail messages such as Microsoft Outlook Express.


Savvy users have nothing to fear.


Actually, it affects those users who are ignorant enough not to
recognize a hoax.


How can one be SURE it's a hoax if one is unable to see the contents
of the e-mail message without launching the links contained in it?


A savvy user either disables that feature or uses an
e-mail client that doesn't automatically launch links
contained in the e-mail.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/merry-chr...rus-hoax.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp

Or they have their incoming e-mail checked for viruses.

Marty

Earthlink trashes all that stuff before it gets to the PoP server.

"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote

A savvy user either disables that feature or uses an
e-mail client that doesn't automatically launch links
contained in the e-mail.

True. Done, in my case. The problem with a real virus that comes from
people you know, is that you would be likely to open the E-mail and
attachments, because you believe they came from a friend, and that they are
safe. That makes this type of virus very dangerous, and very likely to
compromise the receiver's system.

Or they have their incoming e-mail checked for viruses.

Done, in my case, also.

There is also the possibility that the virus is too new to be detected by
anti virus programs.

The *******s that write virus programs deserve to be hung by their
fingernails, then flogged. There are many scores of people hit by viruses
every year, and many of them were trying to be safe. Sometimes significant
damage is done to their machines.

If a warning helps other people to not get hit, I'll take them and send
them, anytime. If a few turn out to be hoaxes, I guess I can live with
that.
--
Jim in NC

"Paul Riley" wrote in message
et...
Hey Jim,

No sweat. I would rather be safe than sorry---so thanks for the heads up.

And if you are one of those know-it-all a**holes giving Jim a hard time,
may Santa poop in your stocking!!

Paul in OK.

And there we were... counting on enough coal in our stockings to stay warm
all winter and you had to ruin the comcept. (

Peter

BTW, on a mildly serious note, I trust links and attachments from some of
the people I know; but there are some very notable exceptions!

Morgans schrieb:

There is also the possibility that the virus is too new to be detected by
anti virus programs.

The anti virus program people are pretty quick. If you have installed a
serious anti virus program and have subsribed for authomatic updates,
then you are pretty safe.

If a warning helps other people to not get hit, I'll take them and send
them, anytime. If a few turn out to be hoaxes, I guess I can live with
that.

Serious virus warnings are *never* distributed by e-mails like the one
you posted. Actually, this e-mail itself can be considered a kind of
virus, because it fills mailboxes, wastes people's time and probably
causes some friendly christmas mails to be deleted unread.

"Morgans" kinda/sorta wrote:

The *******s that write hoax emails deserve to be hung by their
fingernails, then flogged. There are many scores of people hit by
hoaxes every year, and many of them were trying to be safe. Sometimes
significant damage is done to their machines, because they followed
information contained within.

I guess I can live with that...

"Peter Dohm" wrote

And there we were... counting on enough coal in our stockings to stay warm
all winter and you had to ruin the comcept. (

Ahhh, that's O.K.

I've heard that **** burns well, too!
--
Jim in NC

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
"Morgans" wrote in
:

I know that viruses are not part of the newsgroup scene, but this one
is important enough, that I felt like making an announcement, to keep
someone from getting burned.

DO NOT open any e-mails that say "Merry Christmas" in the subject line.

Why would I do that anyway?

Humbug, that;s all it is.

What if it were relabeled "Naked Female Bunyip Pix!"?

"John Mazor" wrote in news:xBG8j.1305$rZ3.1174
@trnddc07:


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
"Morgans" wrote in
:

I know that viruses are not part of the newsgroup scene, but this one
is important enough, that I felt like making an announcement, to keep
someone from getting burned.

DO NOT open any e-mails that say "Merry Christmas" in the subject line.

Why would I do that anyway?

Humbug, that;s all it is.

What if it were relabeled "Naked Female Bunyip Pix!"?

Well, at this stage I'd have to can that too!

I get so much **** like that already it's unreal. That and offes for
remortgaging the bunyiop shack, V!agr@, HGH and god knows what else.
Full credit to OE for filters, though. I have to say I'm impressed with the
latest version for dumping most of it automatically.


Bertie

Peter Dohm wrote:

"Paul Riley" wrote in message
et...

Hey Jim,

No sweat. I would rather be safe than sorry---so thanks for the heads up.

And if you are one of those know-it-all a**holes giving Jim a hard time,
may Santa poop in your stocking!!

Paul in OK.


And there we were... counting on enough coal in our stockings to stay warm
all winter and you had to ruin the comcept. (

Peter

BTW, on a mildly serious note, I trust links and attachments from some of
the people I know; but there are some very notable exceptions!





Ok Peter, you either will - or you won't.

But Merry Xmas anyway!


http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/proof.htm#xmas


Richard