Virus Stuff

[***boat]

It happens about every 5 months, someone on the ***boat forums gets infected with a mass mailing virus that sends to everyone in your inbox from someone else. That means that conceivably if you were infected and had a friend named Bob in your address book you could be sending everyone virus's from Bob's email address.
I would suggest that everyone scan their computers for virus's as it is almost defiantly someone in these forums who is infected. If you need a very good free scan go here http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
***boat WILL NEVER SEND YOU AN EMAIL WITH A FILE ATTACHED. IF YOU GET AN EMAIL FROM US, EVEN IF IT IS FROM A LEGIT EMAIL ADDRESS AND IT HAS AN ATTACHMENT DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.
As an example I just got this message from staff@***boat.com.
"Dear user of ***boat.com,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay Trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.
For details see the attach.
Cheers,
The ***boat.com team http://www.***boat.com"
This is a trick, do not open any emails with this type of wording.

[Kachina26]

Thankyou:D

[HCS]

Damn, I hate those what about Bobs?:eek:

[Hotcrusader76]

TPC just lost all their hard drives over the past weekend to a virus. I utilize some of the best protection money can buy but that didn't work either. It corrupted my back-up discs as well as the hard drives themselves.
Well long story short it's going to cost well over $2k to recover the lost info. Meanwhile... this weekend will be paper input weekend. What a ****ing joke this has been.

[91nordic29]

our whole office has had one problem or another this week. i dont understand these people.!

[Bense468]

Make sure you update your dats and block attachments containg zip's from your firewalls for the time being. Once this is taken care of you can unblock those zip attachments

[Screaming Pete]

Yes, I got that one yesterday I deleted it from the inbox and then the deleted files and ran norton anti. and i'm ok. thanks for the heads up :)

[goeasy8]

I get them all the time, I use AVG virus scan. Catches them all the time.

[Flying Tiger]

I rarely send e mails.
I often get "UNDELIVERABLE MAILERDEAMON" emails in my inbox.
They're bogus because I don't send any to begin with. I think my last one was to Boatcop some months ago.
I suspect it's someone sending a virus. It's a clever way to do it because you naturally want to see what didn't send and open it up.
Maybe I'm wrong,, but beware.

[bob briley]

its not me

[***boat]

Looks like the virus's have subsided for now.

[gigamurph]

I think I found the virus! it's Bense 468's avatar! She sure as h**l makes me itch! Dude! Keep spreadin' that around!:D
If that is someone near and dear to you; no disrespect meant! She simply looks great and I don't like for greatness to go unnoticed!:p :D

[Dr. Eagle]

I use Trend Microvirus PCcillin. It is made by the same folks that do the Housecall (the link in the Admins post). It updates itself and keeps everything current. I have never (knock on wood) had a virus problem with this product. I have been using it for the last 4 years now through the I love you virus, and the XP virus... it has always worked. Unlike some of the others I have used over the years I might add.

[FMluvswater]

Just over 3 hours ago my AVG ran it's daily scheduled check and found nothing. About a half hour ago a CD-ROM game I was playing crashed twice. I wasn't sure what was up but decided to try all my nifty lil fix it programs. I ran Ad-Aware and dumped some stuff. Grabbed an update file from AVG started AVG again. Turned off system restore too (I hate hangers-on those damned programs/viruses/spam that refuse to be completely removed). Ran Stinger while AVG was running. AVG detected Downloader.dyfica virus and shortly after so did stinger. I have no idea where this virus came from as I haven't opened any e-mails since last night. :confused: I haven't downloaded anything since well before the first AVG scan. What I'd like to know is exactly how to avoid this virus in the future so if anyone knows how I might have inadvertently let it into my system please tell me. I don't want to repeat the same mistake whatever it was. Thanks. :(

[Bense468]

Trendmicro makes a good product.