Re: [gardeners] virus heads-up

Rosemary Carlson (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:11:31 -0400 

Ditto here. Same thing happened to me.

Rosemary in KY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Green" <agreen@cfl.rr.com>
To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [gardeners] virus heads-up


> This morning I had 20 messages that my virus scanner deleted the virus
> from and another 10 that were bounces from others telling me I have the
> virus.  After loads of checking it is not my computer that is infected,
> but that of another that is using my address as cover.   I do hope all
> of you are virus free also.  Good luck.
> Anne in FL
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com 
> > [mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com] On Behalf Of L. Neuru
> > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 6:34 PM
> > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > Subject: RE: [gardeners] virus heads-up
> > 
> > 
> > Is that a variant of the Blaster Worm?  I got it the day 
> > before Norton put
> > the detection on Live Update, and finally got rid of it.  I 
> > have had it sent
> > me 4 times since, always detected, fortunately.  Lucinda
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > > [mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Terry
> > > Sent: August 20, 2003 2:00 PM
> > > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > > Subject: [gardeners] virus heads-up
> > >
> > >
> > > I just to let you all know to extra careful about spam 
> > emails you receive.
> > > For the past two days I have been deluged by spam containing the
> > > W32.sobig.F
> > > worm, as have others.  For example today in my first 
> > morning email check I
> > > found 70 messages containing viruses; thank goodness I have
> > > Mailwasher so I
> > > can delete them off the server without downloading.
> > >
> > > You won't get it from the list because viruses and worms are not
> > > accepted by
> > > the server but you could get it from other spam.
> > >
> > > For those of you who have programs that bounce spam back to 
> > the sender, I
> > > suggest you disable the bounce feature or uncheck bouncing 
> > on all large
> > > emails so you don't get blacklisted by Spamhunter or one of 
> > the other spam
> > > detectors for sending viruses.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
> > 
> 
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