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1 posted on 04/30/2004 4:34:50 PM PDT by Redcloak
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This is the 1st week I have not had one virus sent to me. Usually I avg about 10/wk. Which is not that many compared to some.
2 posted on 04/30/2004 4:37:05 PM PDT by mlbford2
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I get about 25-30 of these a week. Thank God for Norton. Zaps the virus in the attachment before it's sent to me.

Even though I never open attachments.

3 posted on 04/30/2004 4:42:49 PM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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To: Redcloak
Not until you posted this.
5 posted on 04/30/2004 4:45:37 PM PDT by bayourod (To 9/11 Commission: Unless you know where those WMDs are, don't bet my life that they don't exist.)
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To: Redcloak
I do not use outlook as a mail client.
I use a web-based mail service only.
I am getting fewer of these this week than last.
It was 2 0r 3 a day last week, only 2 or 3 total this week.
Some are messages with infected attachements.
Some are 'send' errors from various postmasters
rejecting mail that was spoofed w/ me as the sender.
I suspect somebody w/ the virus has my email address in their address book.
I tried warning my contacts, but most of them are not very computer savy,
and most of them just respond w/ a ?huh?.
7 posted on 04/30/2004 4:49:12 PM PDT by DefCon
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If you are talking about the virus that tells me that my domain is sending out unsafe mail, I get bombed about forty times a day.
9 posted on 04/30/2004 4:54:01 PM PDT by mlmr (Significant or Trivial)
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We see a few hundred a day on my work network, but we have a pretty robust gateway antivirus and firewall solution so nothing gets through. This is actually down from when MyDoom hit the internet we would see several thousand hits everyday of that virus :)
11 posted on 04/30/2004 4:58:56 PM PDT by battousai (Islamic terrorists are like cancer... can you negotiate with Cancer?)
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I have been getting spammed all week. One email that was sent to me has my address but with a 3D in front, how can this get to me if it has the wrong email address?
13 posted on 04/30/2004 5:15:13 PM PDT by angcat
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I have been getting the microsoft "patch" thing from russia 2-3 times a day - driving me nuts as I get almost no spam.
19 posted on 04/30/2004 5:32:22 PM PDT by Oystir
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To: Redcloak
No. 

You probably wrote it. 

I'm calling the FBI.

20 posted on 04/30/2004 5:34:52 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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I have had at least four hits today from this virus. McAFee is catching them, but it is an issue.
22 posted on 04/30/2004 5:35:58 PM PDT by devane617
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Another item that I am having tons of problems with is "Port Scans". My Firewall is logging the activity, but it is more than I can make reports on to the ISP(s). I have several hundred in the past two days alone.
23 posted on 04/30/2004 5:38:19 PM PDT by devane617
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We had a bunch of these coming from some charter.net customers. Charter finally took some of them offline. I haven't got a single one so far this week.

I run Linux, so I don't have to worry about 'em. But they clog up the inbox anyway, and I report every one of them.

25 posted on 04/30/2004 6:13:32 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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I have had about a dozen of these over the last couple of weeks and I run Linux!!!

At least 6 were Netsky-p the rest I am not sure.
29 posted on 04/30/2004 6:47:10 PM PDT by amigatec (There are no significant bugs in our software... Maybe you're not using it properly.- Bill Gates)
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Norton does a great job on it. Be sure to update at least once a week.
32 posted on 04/30/2004 7:46:39 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I've never gotten a virus. What is usually in the subject line, or the headers? I guess I've been lucky.
35 posted on 04/30/2004 7:54:17 PM PDT by IamHD
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Today I was notified that I had several "bagel" viruses - thank you Cox for keeping them out of my desktop.
43 posted on 05/01/2004 2:52:24 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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