Argh, Virus!!

[MikeHof]

Alright I received an email from someone named Vincent Ramsey with a subject of #'!$. It's an attachment so I haven't opened it. My pc-cillin anti virus alerted me to it. Now my question is what do I do with it?? Do I send it to someone or just delete it?? First time this has ever happened to me.

Mike

[randy48]

Mike, the best thing to do is just delete it, then empty your deleted items folder!

[dab]

I`m on a roll, 2 in 1 week. PeMagistr.a and just had one to come in called JS_KAKWORM.A
from the same guy I know too. Sure glad I got a new antivirus. You can set pc-cillin to auto delete it for you.
David

[MikeHof]

Well I just received another virus from Vincent. It's the PE_Magirst.A virus. ARGH!! Isn't there anything I can do to stop this???

[dab]

you`re already doing it. Dont think he is sending you these on his own, they attach themselves to the contacts in the address book. Thats why I dont like people fwd: ing me email with 20 names on it.
David

[Scorpio69]

You may want to start emailing the people you got the virus from, and if the headers still show up the person from whom it was forwarded, etc.

Usually people are very appreciative that you took the time to (politely) let them know that they are involuntarily spreading a virus.

The first time this happened to me, I fired off a very angry email. I did not realize that what I had received was a Worm, and that the person had no idea what I was talking about.

[shadow]

Good advice Scorpio69. Yes, do send email to the people you rec'd the virus from because they know nothing about it, it's the worm's fault, it sent to all in their address book and you were one of them.

I work at a university and we have been dealing with the SirCam virus all week, which has even made the local news here.
It's another worm that fires it off to all in the infected computer's address book so it can go like crazy real fast. Lucky thing is that it's easy to fix, Symantec has a fix which we simply run on infected computers.
I kill that thing dead with the insertion of a floppy http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

****....if only people would stop opening attachments....when will the general public learn this? Oh well....keeps some of us employed...ya gotta like that!