Someone here have a Virus on their machine?

[John R]

The reason I asked is that earlier today I received an infected e-mail from an address of a senior member here and just a little while ago, someone emailed me that they recieved one with my name on it (I run an exceedingly tight computer - not impossible but highly unlikely).

Many of the latest worms propogate themselves using addresses in your e-mail program and send bacj out under these "found" names. Most times these days infected e-mails sent from one machine use an e-mail address of an associate of the computer sending them,,,, But I digress....

Please verify you're up to date with Anti-virus and run a scan - someone here is likely infected...

Thanks,

John

[Capt Chuck]

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[Mark]

I don't know if my machine is inadvertently sending out these warnings, but being on a Mac, I NEVER receive any of those myself.

[ocuyler]

All of our email address are on this site, in easy reach for various worms to find. It's nothing new, but I reiterate the above advice to update your anti-virus and be VERY carful what attachments you open.

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[John R]

I don't know if my machine is inadvertently sending out these warnings, but being on a Mac, I NEVER receive any of those myself.

I doubt it would be a MAC as people traditionally didn't write viurses for MACs - HOWEVER, not that "OSx" is written atop of the *nix variants (free BSD I beleive), it will be more susceptible to viruses wirtten for Linux et al. Though it should still be 100-1 Anything Microsoft infected -v- everything else.

And you might RECEIVE the viurs e-mails (and the virus, or more appropriately "worm" won't do anything. But unlikely to send as the "worm" can't load an smtp engine on your Mac and start to propogate itself.

So I was also a little tired when I started this thread last night, but just trying to say that everyone should check their machines. And Otto is correct that a program can retrieve out e-mail addys from this site and others, it's still more likely that someone here has an infected machine being the result.

Trayder - is there an option to turn off public viewing of the e-mail addys? On my site, I turn it off for this reason...

[Mark]

I doubt it would be a MAC as people traditionally didn't write viurses for MACs - HOWEVER, not that "OSx" is written atop of the *nix variants (free BSD I beleive), it will be more susceptible to viruses wirtten for Linux et al. Though it should still be 100-1 Anything Microsoft infected -v- everything else.

- John, for people like me, you might as well have been reading off a Chinese take-out menu [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[John R]

- John, for people like me, you might as well have been reading off a Chinese take-out menu [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Short version, MAC's utopian virus free world is not going to last BUT it will likely never become 1% of the problem in the Microsoft world.

[Capt Chuck]

John, for people like me, you might as well have been reading off a Chinese take-out menu

Hey Ikan can you help Mark out [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Ikan Besar]

Sorry Capt. Chuck, Mark is clueless!

[Mark]

yup, I be guilty as charged!