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Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1719
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 7:03 pm: | 
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NOTICE PLEASE READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back home and found an e-mail in my Copper e-mail account that I DID NOT SEND TO MYSELF OR ANYONE ELSE!
DO NOT! READ THIS NOTE IF IT APPEARS IN YOUR E-MAIL AND DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHEMENT!!!!!!
BELOW IS WHAT THE E-MAIL LOOKS LIKE!
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From: tech808@copperelectronics.com
To: tech808@copperelectronics.com
Date: 03/07/04 16:29:15
Subject: Pricelist
Attachment #2.0: "aaddaaddba.zip" (16k, application/zip)
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I find this rather amusing that it says I sent it to MYSELF and I have not even been home!
BUT IN ANY CASE DO NOT OPEN THE ATTTACHMENT AND IT IS NOT FROM ME!
Lon
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Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1720
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 8:45 pm: |
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OK, JUST GOT e-mail from wa4gch and it appears it is changing "Subject's as well as the Attachment" name.
I called Bruce and he did not send it as he was also gone.
Someone on Forum has it and does not know it.
BE VERY CAREFUL AND DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT's!!!!!!!!!
Lon
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Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 861
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 8:51 pm: |
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I've been getting virus email's daily for the last month. Someone here needs to clean up their PC. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1053
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 9:12 pm: |
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anyone receiving mail from me please scan it!
IF IT HAS A VIRUS PLEASE LET ME KNOW !!!!!! |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1725
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 9:18 am: |
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FORUM MEMBER's CHECK YOUR COMPUTER's!
It appears that a COPPER FORUM MEMBER has this VIRUS on there COMPUTER and it is attaching itself to thier e-mail list!
Stop and Think  if you have written / e-mailed myself ~ TECH808 or Bruce / wa4gch, TECH181, and or the FORUMMASTER, it could be your computer that is infected.
NOTE!
THE COPPER FORUM IS SECURE FROM THIS VIRUS!
It is ONLY SPREAD thru someone's e-mail list and is on Thier Computer!
It attack's a person's e-mail list and generate's e-mail's with attachment's and Changes the Sender's Name, Subject and Attachment's so it is never the same.
Check your Computer's folk's someone has it and does not know it.
IF YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE OF WHO SENT IT TO YOU and what it contain's "DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT'S!
Lon
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Crafter
Advanced Member
Username: Crafter
Post Number: 964
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 7:09 pm: |
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I scanned Im clean, I havnt got anything from you bruce, but will scan if I do. If its forwarding its a trojan. Bruce try MICRO TRENDS HOUSE CALL on-line its free. I have used it with my norton and the two together work great, as well as adware.
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Yankee
Junior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 34
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 8:39 pm: |
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Interesting, wonder how this is being done, my computer is scaned both coming and going on E-mail. I just checked my firewall for any viruses and had no red flags, I don't open mail from anyones address that I don't know. Yankee |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1735
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 11:12 pm: |
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It is very simple, Someone does not have an Anti Virus program on their computer and opened an attachment at one time with the Virus in it.
Now the Virus has attacked their e-mail list.
That is how it is spread and probably the person that has it has NO IDEA that it is in their computer.
With out an Anti Virus Program they might never know about it.
And it will continue to do this until it is removed. |
Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 867
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 6:42 pm: |
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Heck Lon, I've been getting virus E-Mails on my Copper account for over a year off and on. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1758
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:18 pm: |
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That is because you are so Popular  and you get More e-mail than we do.
And you have been around longer, and more people have your e-mail address on their computer's.
Lon  |
Mr_rf
Intermediate Member
Username: Mr_rf
Post Number: 280
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 11:22 pm: |
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Must be nice to be so popular like 181!
Hmmm, are acquiring computer viruses anything like getting sick to get attention! Or, are the puters trying to tell us something? lol
Onnnnnnly kidding! Hope the source can be found before too much damage is done. |
Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 871
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 12:59 pm: |
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Yeah, I am popular. Popular like syphillus. |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1730
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 6:36 pm: |
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Tech181,you kill me,you are so funny |
Barefoot
Intermediate Member
Username: Barefoot
Post Number: 356
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 7:46 pm: |
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I just got one that said dx431 sent me, got one last night that said bruce sent me
I didn't open either one.
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Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1732
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 9:00 pm: |
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Well,I've gotten them both from dx431 and bruce and also crafter and no viruses,norton scans coming in and going out,and I just love the attachments they send,some of the coolest I've seen,if you don't have an anti-virus and have windows you are just asking for trouble,my dad-in-law has windows 98 and had to take his tower in for repair and installation of anti-virus,he had 5 viruses and 3 worms and a trojan,needless to say it was locked up but good,but it's fixed now. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1773
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 11:40 pm: |
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The problem is unless all 2630 Copper Forum Member's check their computer's or install a Virus Protection Program they will never know they have it.
Until this is done I am afraid this will continue to spread.
And the person who has it is probably completely un-aware they have it on their computer.
Lon
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Mr_rf
Intermediate Member
Username: Mr_rf
Post Number: 283
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 8:24 am: |
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Installing the virus program is only a start...the members who know how should try to determine the the name(s) of the files that are creating the viruses and share that info so we can all look for them manually on our harddrives. Not all anti-virus softwares are alike and therefore doesn't catch every virus. |
Hornet168ky
Member
Username: Hornet168ky
Post Number: 84
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 10:30 am: |
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I am a computer illiterate, but you say that it has to be someone from the forum, does this mean it has to be someone sends you an e-mail? Because I sent an e-mail to tech 808 a long time ago, and also I think Bruce but I am not sure but it has been awhile ago, I have Mcfee antivirus thru AOL, so I do not think it is me, my antivirus runs every morning at 02:00 am. but it has not found anything yet!
Just my thoughts and questions from 1 illiterate computer user.
Hornet |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 1777
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 10:43 am: |
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Hornet, I have never used Mcaffee, as I use Norton.
I would guess it is someone who has no Virus protection or does not get the daily or instant Update's.
There are so many virus's out there coming out every day that a GOOD UPDATE system is a MUST.
Lon
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Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1740
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:30 pm: |
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Believe it,if your rig has system restore and you get a virus in the restore files before you get an anti-virus,to keep from reinfecting your main drive you must turn off system restore as none of the anti-virus programs currently available,as far as I know,can remove it.I bought my norton when I bought my computer,thus my system restore is clean,thought I'd throw that out there.Bigbob |
Cornfed
Junior Member
Username: Cornfed
Post Number: 31
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 5:27 am: |
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been sent the netsky virus x6 this week so far...my AV program picks em up and sends em to the vault...using AVG antivirus...new to me...used to use norton (system resourse hog)...seems the AVG program works well without a large drag on the system resourses....
interestingly,,most of the infected files are in a *.zip format.....
73
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Pig040
Intermediate Member
Username: Pig040
Post Number: 329
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 9:45 am: |
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I run the AVG software too, I like it a lot so far. Norton always whacked out my system. |
Tech8541
Moderator
Username: Tech8541
Post Number: 133
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 9:18 pm: |
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can someone post a link to this god of av that you call avg?? i run norton for now. |
Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 873
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 11:04 pm: |
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I received two more E-Mails today at 14:37. Any ideas? |
Forummaster
Moderator
Username: Forummaster
Post Number: 348
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 11:27 pm: |
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AVG www.grisoft.com |
Mr_rf
Intermediate Member
Username: Mr_rf
Post Number: 284
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:47 am: |
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Is it possible to forward the infected emails to your anti-virus s/w provider and let them determine the fix? Where's their customer service commitment stop? |
Crafter
Advanced Member
Username: Crafter
Post Number: 974
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 10:58 am: |
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I keep getting "Avenue A" what is it? Its being blocked but man I sure get it alot, BigBob your right on the infected files in restore, I use Norton and The Trend Micro "house calls" its free on-line scan between the two I stay clean. No ONE virus protection in my opinion can do it all I have found virus's after running norton before but house call got it, a sneaky trojan. |
Digger
Junior Member
Username: Digger
Post Number: 16
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 12:28 am: |
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A good way to tell if your the one with the virus is to add AAAAAAAAAA@nowhere.com to your addressbook and if it comes back as undeliverable yourit. dont send it yourself if you have a virus it will send itself .
Digger |
Cornfed
Junior Member
Username: Cornfed
Post Number: 35
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 8:16 pm: |
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crafter,,,avenue A is a information referral type cookie that many, most, all,,,big sites use to get info about you, your machine, your surfing preferences and nuances (?sp)...check out Spybot...freeware that scans your pc and will filter these cookies out...i run it weekly and it is ammazing the •••• it picks out... |
Crafter
Advanced Member
Username: Crafter
Post Number: 975
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:27 am: |
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Oh I know I set mine up to kill those cookies automatically now, Thanks for the help though most of the time its from msn or yahoo were I get avenue a.
I use norton, AdWare, and trend micro house calls. |
