Virus festival?

[trancejeremy]

I've probably gotten 50 emails today saying "Returned Mail: Service Unavailable", then in the body of the message, saying something about it being rejected by AOL because my email had a virus in it.

At first I thought perhaps my computer was infected and sending stuff to all these people, but after several virus scans, I couldn't find anything related to that on my computer (though I did find a couple web viruses, though they were more spyware/adware than actual viruses).

 

[Darrin Drader]

Today was a HUGE day for this thanks to that stupid worm. Just to put it in perspective, at work today I had to sort out close to 3,000 of these. Eventually we blocked them from the server by the subject lines, which stopped the majority of them.

 

[Green Knight]

I checked another board and a poster there said that he had gotten over 450 of these e-mails. Unstinkingbelievable.

 

[Tsyr]

I'm up to over 50 of them this morning.

VIRUS SPAM!

 

[d20Dwarf]

I woke up this morning to 139 new mail messages, every single one of them this virus. In fact, I've gotten 3 more while I'm typing this message.

 

[mhensley]

Yep, we are going thru this today at work right now. This is why I use Yahoo for my email at home. No Outlook = No Virus.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I had to last night and it was obviously that they where virus also... I use outlook but have never had an issue with a virus. Maybe it cause my computer doesn't have an association with .vbs file.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Here's a story on the virus from C/Net

I'm up to about 30 this morning, and counting.
I can't wait for the calls to start coming in from staff members around the library... "I got one of those messages, and I opened it to see if it really was a virus. What do I do now?"
Sometimes, I really hate working with computer ignorant people. How many times do you have to tell them "DON"T OPEN THE ATTACHMENT! JUST DELETE THE MESSAGE!" before it sinks in? Sometimes, I think we should just take their computers away from them.

 

[Garmorn]

Yep, we are going thru this today at work right now. This is why I use Yahoo for my email at home. No Outlook = No Virus.

This made me chuckle. We use Outlook at work and it is what is protecting use from some very careless people. Of course we have set to strip off ALL attachments before receiving any e-mail.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Here's a story on the virus from C/Net I really hate working with computer ignorant people. How many times do you have to tell them "DON"T OPEN THE ATTACHMENT! JUST DELETE THE MESSAGE!" before it sinks in? Sometimes, I think we should just take their computers away from them.

Oh I remember those days, nothing worse then a ship full of people lucky to have graduated high school who tie ropes in knocks for a living....


Oh one suggestion:
Leave the computer and take/cut the CAT-5 cable as it much lighter!