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Old 09 January 2003, 09:40 AM
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Had 18 emails this morning 12 of them virus's!!!

Usual form, from people i do not know with titlews like 'That Movie' or 'My Details', beware. My Norton is not picking them up, not sure why although does not appear to be any attachement.



**Please leave in General for a while**



[Edited by Paul Habgood - 9/1/2003 9:41:32 AM]
Old 01 September 2003, 09:42 AM
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General - No

But as you posted this in NSR...



Old 01 September 2003, 09:43 AM
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i got 75 how cool is that
Old 01 September 2003, 09:44 AM
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MUST BE THE VIRUS!

Thank you for pointing out yet another of my mistakes
Old 01 September 2003, 10:12 AM
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Bloomin Mod's.

Off to Comp's we go
Old 01 September 2003, 10:20 AM
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Chris
Which part of the

** Please can you leave this in General for a while** did you not understand?

Itr was a warning really, i think you'll find that Computer relates has less of an audience whicj is why i put it in NSR (not genral 'cause i am a feckwit)

Old 01 September 2003, 10:26 AM
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It was left in NSR ( ) for a while - time was up







(Keep this going & it'll be off to muppets to warn them )
Old 01 September 2003, 10:44 AM
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Standards

If people don't have any AV protection by now and don't delete any suss looking e-mails, they deserve to get infected.

They then also deserve to pay me £30 to go round to rebuild their PC
Old 01 September 2003, 11:10 AM
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been away for 2weeks & have just looked at my emails, all of which had virus'

Has this email attack been on the news? anything i need to know?
Old 01 September 2003, 11:16 AM
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InvisibleMan:

Yes, and Yes, respectively.

1 - you must apply the patch for blaster if you're running Win2k, WinNT, WinXP
2 - SoBig (the email virus) - don't open any ,pif attachments (goes without saying really!

Cheers,
Nick.
Old 01 September 2003, 11:18 AM
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Dumaru.a is up to Medium Risk at the moment too.
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Had an RTM on this thread being in NSR earlier btw! Claiming "double standards"

LOL

See - we're not afraid to moderate "our own"

In fact it is relished
Old 01 September 2003, 11:31 AM
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I thought it was .pif not ,pif.

Chelle - ever the pedantic.
Old 01 September 2003, 11:37 AM
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Funnily enough, I haven't had one of these. Ever. Does this mean my ISP (Freeserve) is filtering the traffic?

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Old 01 September 2003, 11:39 AM
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Cheers Chiark

that was the Blaster/lovsan one, the one that happened 2weeks ago right?
The SoBig one will be in the latest Dat files, right?

Ta
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I think youre right about freeserve filtering, i had a couple early on but havent had any since.
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