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i'm getting mydoom virus e-mail from your bellatlantic address...

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Jeff Miller wrote in news:HWpWb.32096$fZ6.23502
@lakeread06:

i'm getting mydoom virus e-mail from your bellatlantic address...



Probably more indicative that his email address is in an infectee's contact
list, as opposed to a virus on his computer. This **** is hard to track
down.

Scott

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"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:HWpWb.32096$fZ6.23502@lakeread06...
i'm getting mydoom virus e-mail from your bellatlantic address...

First off, I can assure you my PC is not infected. I have been writing
email and other internet software for years and have a really secure
environment. Because I develop software, I am especially careful about
email and scan for viruses daily and make extra effort when something like
Mydoom is going around. I trap all programs that try to make a network
connection and manually OK all access. Nothing is getting through my
screens. Seriously.

We have the misfortune of having our addresses on somebody's infected PC
(I'm pretty sure it's in Australia). I have been getting dozens of Mydoom
messages every day - and a lot more have been trapped by filters at my ISP.
Along with the continuing stream of messages, mostly with forged Australian
addresses, but also many from the Netherlands, and France, are a lot of
'rejections' from virus filters at various international ISPs, companies and
individuals. Mydoom is adept at forging source addresses and uses the
address book on the infected PC both to send messages and also to fake
'from' addresses. I got a few angry messages from people who received
Mydoom from 'me' over the past two weeks. I doubt that they believe my
story.

My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected. Somebody
who obviously has both of us in his/her address book. If you received one
from 'me', rest assured that many people have received it from 'you'.

--Stan (death to the virus writers)

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"Stan Gula" wrote...
"Jeff Miller" wrote...
i'm getting mydoom virus e-mail from your bellatlantic address...
snip
We have the misfortune of having our addresses on somebody's infected PC
(I'm pretty sure it's in Australia). I have been getting dozens of Mydoom
messages every day - and a lot more have been trapped by filters at my ISP.
Along with the continuing stream of messages, mostly with forged Australian
addresses, but also many from the Netherlands, and France, are a lot of
'rejections' from virus filters at various international ISPs, companies and
individuals.
snip
My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected.

Damned foreigners. :)

--Stan (death to the virus writers)

Agreed. Each one that appears seems to be more sophisticated than the last. It's
truly a waste of programming ability. We can only hope the author is eventually
caught and slowly dipped into a vat of boiling oil. For $500,000, if I had some
good clues where to look, I'd quit my job and go find him/her myself:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5156836.html
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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"Stan Gula" wrote in
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My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected.

Is the virus upside down, then?

Scott

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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Stan Gula" wrote in
:

My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected.

Is the virus upside down, then?

Nope, but it spins down the toilet anti-clockwise.

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"Stan Gula" wrote in
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My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected


Hey! Whatch'you sayin' Stan?

;-)

Not that I needed to (I use linux for all email and real work -
using my windows box largely as a dumb terminal)
did a manual check and automatic scans just in case. Nada.

I'm getting lots of notices saying people are trying to send me the
virus, and that I have sent them the virus ... I haven't recognised one
address yet ('cept my own ), though they are probably spoofed as well.



Steve (Not the only one by a long chalk, but the most visible.
and Still amazed that windows gets all snakey about a user
looking in the system directory but allows any old thing to
write to it)

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"Stan Gula" wrote in
:

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
. 1.17...
"Stan Gula" wrote in
:

My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected.

Is the virus upside down, then?

Nope, but it spins down the toilet anti-clockwise.



At times the dunny spins down anti-clockwise ... urgh.



Steve (who'd rather spin a yarn ...)