email attack

Jerry Springer wrote:

That MS patch and the worms and virus that are attached to it have been
going around and hitting a lot of people hard. Last week I was getting
about 300 a day. I thought that it was going to burn up my anti virus
program. I check my system several times a day to make sure none of
them are getting through so far so good.


Why are u downloading the attachments. I havent had a single problem casue i
dont download stuff unless i know who it is from.

CHris

"CW9371" wrote in message
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Jerry Springer wrote:

That MS patch and the worms and virus that are attached to it have been
going around and hitting a lot of people hard. Last week I was getting
about 300 a day. I thought that it was going to burn up my anti virus
program. I check my system several times a day to make sure none of
them are getting through so far so good.


Why are u downloading the attachments. I havent had a single problem
casue i
dont download stuff unless i know who it is from.

CHris

You could still have this problem if someone you know gets infected and your
in their email address book.

(CW9371) wrote:

Why are u downloading the attachments. I havent had a single problem casue i
dont download stuff unless i know who it is from.

CHris
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++

Apparently you havn't met up with the address thieves, yet.
You cannot trust mail from any address anymore.


Barnyard BOb --

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:47:37 -0500, Barnyard BOb --
wrote:


(CW9371) wrote:

Why are u downloading the attachments. I havent had a single problem casue i
dont download stuff unless i know who it is from.

I knew there would be someone who said this.:-))
That approach has been one of the main reason earlier viruses spread
so fast.
Up till recently opening attachments from some one you know was one of
the surest ways to catch a virus. You needed to verify that they
actually sent the attachment and the address is not sufficient.
The worms and viruses took the addresses out of the infected computers
address book and sent copies of itself to those addresses.


CHris
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++

Apparently you havn't met up with the address thieves, yet.
You cannot trust mail from any address anymore.

And as Bob points out we now have address spoofing where you think you
are going to one address and it takes you some where else. Or you
receive mail from fake addresses.

Mail and URLs can be redirected (hijacked) Verisign hijacked unused
dot coms, dot orgs and some others. They promptly got sued. There
for a while if you mistyped a URL you ended up at verisign. It
happened to me.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)



Barnyard BOb --