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08/31/2003 11:34:16 PM · #1 |
im just encountering a unusual incoming mails in my inbox, just yesterday i got 75 of this mails (i started receiving this emails for more than a week now)
Re: approved
Re: your application
Re: thank you
Re: details
Re: your details
Re: that movie
Re: screensavers
somebody told me that this attachments are with virus, everytime i recvd this emails i just delete it.
any idea about this emails...just this morning i recvd more 100 emails with same attachments, when i reply to their email address, the said address is not existing.
Message edited by author 2003-08-31 23:36:11. |
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08/31/2003 11:37:12 PM · #2 |
don't open it.
i am not authority, by any stretch of the imagination, but we got a memo at work a couple of weeks ago about it. Sobig???? maybe???
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08/31/2003 11:48:40 PM · #3 |
| I get an email about everyday in my landbountiful.com email address that is from admin@landbountiful.com. It says my email address is about to expire and to open an attachment to get it to keep working. I've been deleting it because I am the admin of the site and it's not going to expire. |
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09/01/2003 09:11:30 AM · #4 |
| I was getting a lot of emails once saying that the message I sent to (insert name here) was undeliverable because of a virus (even though I never sent an email to (insert name here). I got like 50+ of these in only a couple days. One of them was titled Re:Wicked Screensaver with no attachment. I contacted AOL because I actually don't send emails unless it's through DPC. So they said that it's called flooding to make you think you have a virus, so then when they send you an email titled "Protect yourself from email virus" you'll download it and GET a virus. However, the attachments COULD still actually contain a virus. If you don't know who sent it, don't open it. |
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09/01/2003 09:22:12 AM · #5 |
Setzler gave me this link to scan for and remove the sobig virus IF I had it. Thank God I didn't. It's best to check and make sure and if you do then it removes it :) Hope this helps.
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09/01/2003 09:24:09 AM · #6 |
You know, I WISH I were only getting 100 instances of this stupid thing a day. I'm not exaggerating -- I'm getting it 2,000+ times every damn day, and it's driving me insane. Thank the good Lord I'm not on dialup!
It is indeed the SoBig virus, and it's supposedly set to stop spreading itself on the 9th or 10th of September... somewhere around there. |
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09/01/2003 09:28:55 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
You know, I WISH I were only getting 100 instances of this stupid thing a day. I'm not exaggerating -- I'm getting it 2,000+ times every damn day, and it's driving me insane. Thank the good Lord I'm not on dialup!
It is indeed the SoBig virus, and it's supposedly set to stop spreading itself on the 9th or 10th of September... somewhere around there. |
I presume you just filter it into a certain folder? |
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09/01/2003 10:00:20 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
It is indeed the SoBig virus, and it's supposedly set to stop spreading itself on the 9th or 10th of September... somewhere around there. |
At which point it's expected that a new Sobig variation will appear and start the merry-go-round all over again :-/
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09/01/2003 11:35:23 AM · #9 |
| thanks for the fedback...im still recieving it and my inbox is full, i've to open every hour to trash it. |
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09/01/2003 12:00:08 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
I presume you just filter it into a certain folder? |
Yes, I have set up a number of filters that have been effectively dumping these into the trash, but I still need to go fishing through my trash file to be sure that none of my "legit" mail wound up being accidentally filtered there. With all of my spam/virus filters in place, there are occasionally some real pieces of mail that wind up getting filtered accidentally.
This whole thing wouldn't bother me nearly as much if I didn't have to sort through all of the filtered mail to be sure that I'm not missing anything important. |
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09/01/2003 10:59:46 PM · #11 |
| Spambutcher is a great utility for filtering out these types of emails and other spam emails. //www.spambutcher.com |
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09/01/2003 11:11:22 PM · #12 |
I get these everyday lately. I just delete them because I know I haven't sent the email they are talking about.
I just never open any mail if it isn't from someone I know. Safer that way.
Originally posted by hbunch7187:
I was getting a lot of emails once saying that the message I sent to (insert name here) was undeliverable because of a virus (even though I never sent an email to (insert name here). I got like 50+ of these in only a couple days. One of them was titled Re:Wicked Screensaver with no attachment. I contacted AOL because I actually don't send emails unless it's through DPC. So they said that it's called flooding to make you think you have a virus, so then when they send you an email titled "Protect yourself from email virus" you'll download it and GET a virus. However, the attachments COULD still actually contain a virus. If you don't know who sent it, don't open it. |
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