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Virus alert
Some e-mails which contain a virus are being circulated in my name -
written in the style GOULD ALAN. One or two urglers have sent to tell me that they have received them, and asked me would I check my PC. I received one myself today and was alerted about the virus by my updated NAV/Symantec system. My PC is also protected by Demon/Turnpike and MS-XP-Home software. Anyone receiving a copy of the spam should delete it without opening. With apologies. -- Alan Gould |
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"Alan Gould" wrote Some e-mails which contain a virus are being circulated in my name - written in the style GOULD ALAN. One or two urglers have sent to tell me that they have received them, and asked me would I check my PC. I received one myself today and was alerted about the virus by my updated NAV/Symantec system. My PC is also protected by Demon/Turnpike and MS-XP-Home software. Anyone receiving a copy of the spam should delete it without opening. With apologies. -- Surely everyone on the internet knows these modern virus's don't come from who they say they do, the from address is spoofed. http://securityresponse.symantec.com...ion=1152x864As examples.--RegardsBobIn Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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"Alan Gould" wrote in message ... Some e-mails which contain a virus are being circulated in my name - written in the style GOULD ALAN. One or two urglers have sent to tell me that they have received them, and asked me would I check my PC. I received one myself today and was alerted about the virus by my updated NAV/Symantec system. My PC is also protected by Demon/Turnpike and MS-XP-Home software. Anyone receiving a copy of the spam should delete it without opening. With apologies. -- Alan Gould They seem to be using my name as well. I too am protected, so please delete any suspicious messages from "me" Jenny |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:06:51 +0100, "JennyC" wrote: "Alan Gould" wrote in message ... Some e-mails which contain a virus are being circulated in my name - written in the style GOULD ALAN. One or two urglers have sent to tell me that they have received them, and asked me would I check my PC. I received one myself today and was alerted about the virus by my updated NAV/Symantec system. My PC is also protected by Demon/Turnpike and MS-XP-Home software. Anyone receiving a copy of the spam should delete it without opening. With apologies. -- Alan Gould They seem to be using my name as well. I too am protected, so please delete any suspicious messages from "me" I seen one from you. Martin tut tut, your English is going down the drain just as quick as mine :~) Jenny |
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In article , Sacha
writes On 3/11/04 17:25, in article , "Janet Baraclough.." wrote: Can either of you say if the recipients' addresses were harvested from your addressbooks, (or were definitely not in your addressbooks)? I know this isn't addressed to me but in my case, the so-called recipient was definitely not in my address book. Whether I was in his I don't know. I've come across two types of email using my forged address 1) generation of spam/virus purporting to come from me, but actually coming from someone else entirely 2) taking advantage of the prevalence of 1), emails pretending to have intercepted a virus infected email from me, and asking me to click on a link for further details/rid myself of the virus etc. I presume that clicking on the link delivers the virus. I ignore/delete all such messages. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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In article , Janet Baraclough.
.. writes Can either of you say if the recipients' addresses were harvested from your addressbooks, (or were definitely not in your addressbooks)? Other than my own address, the recipients were not in the address book of my present PC, but they were in a previous one. One was an urgler a long time ago. I did not transfer the old address book, or any urg data when this PC was built two years ago. -- Alan Gould |
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Janet Baraclough.. wrote in
: It can't be coincidence that the fake-urgler-ID viruses are being received by other urglers. Looks like a troll ID-faker who reads urg, has found a new way to be silly. More likely the program sending the emails has harvested them from an infected third party who had both addresses in their address book, or even that the program has moved from address book to address book harvesting a list of addresses and mixing them up. A while ago I received an email ostensibly from Alan to one of our clareassoc addresses. This address is purely an alias: it has never been used to send email, nor is it used to post to any usenet group, but it has been fairly widely circulated on the web, is used by our clients and is in plenty of address books. If a troll was emailling me manually, I'd rather expect them to use my posting address, which is valid, or at least something on the same domain. I'd guess that someone once emailled us using info@, and the same person (or maybe even someone they know) happened to have had an email from Alan as well. (I don't normally check my junk mail that carefully! I was looking for something else that had got junked accidentally, and noticed the name). Victoria -- Clare Associates Ltd http://www.clareassoc.co.uk/ -- |
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"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... The message from "JennyC" contains these words: "Alan Gould" wrote in message ... Some e-mails which contain a virus are being circulated in my name - written in the style GOULD ALAN. One or two urglers have sent to tell me that they have received them, and asked me would I check my PC. They seem to be using my name as well. I too am protected, so please delete any suspicious messages from "me" Jenny Can either of you say if the recipients' addresses were harvested from your addressbooks, (or were definitely not in your addressbooks)? Janet. I don't know. One person was in my addressbook, but also on URG, so they could have gotten the address from either source. Jenny |
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In message , Janet
Baraclough.. writes The message from Sacha contains these words: I know this isn't addressed to me but in my case, the so-called recipient was definitely not in my address book. Well, that sounds like a standard spammers ploy. I get notifications of the same scam, and just ignore them. What's been done with Alan and Jenny's faked-ID's, using them to target viruses *at other urglers*, is a different kettle of fish. I think it's just a bit of a coincidence - I don't think it's being targeted at all -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
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In message , Janet
Baraclough.. writes The message from Alan Gould contains these words: In article , Janet Baraclough. .. writes Can either of you say if the recipients' addresses were harvested from your addressbooks, (or were definitely not in your addressbooks)? Other than my own address, the recipients were not in the address book of my present PC, but they were in a previous one. One was an urgler a long time ago. I did not transfer the old address book, or any urg data when this PC was built two years ago. Thanks. It can't be coincidence that the fake-urgler-ID viruses are being received by other urglers. Yes it can. If the machine sending out the viruses is used by another urgler, then it's quite possible they have various urgler email addresses in their address books. So if the virus extracts the addresses (for the fake from and the to addresses) form the machines address book, sooner or later it will use two urgler addresses. Not in this case, but I've had virus emails appearing to come from other members of mailing list and newsgroups before. It could be someone playing silly bugger but I don't think so. -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
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In message , Janet
Baraclough.. writes When's the baby due? Today :-) But no sign of it yet, had a false alarm a few days a go, but no go yet. Helen mucho fed up, and wishes it would just hurry up and 'pop out' as Elinor says. Has been much intrigued by how the baby will get out, she considered the belly button for a while, but decided that is too small. -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
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