couple of nasty worm viruses flying about people.coming via ya email with an attachment.the emails you get are from people you wont even know.just had around 30 mails from people i dont know but nortons bashed em for me.if youve got a virus scanner update it now and set it to check every email.if you aint got a virus scanner dont open any emails and attachments from addys you dont recognise.

bit of info here about the viruses.

http://www.networkassociates.com/us/index.asp


steve54

are you get bombarded with emails yet.

cleaning tool here

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FxNovarg.exe

and instructions here on how to use it

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.removal.tool.html

iam currently getting about ten emails a minute.anyone else experiencing the same.

Steve... I had a couple of bad ones that Norton AV told me were there, but couldn`t erradicate!! so I had to download 2 patches from Microsoft. They were the welchworm and blasterworm that only affect XP. If anyone wants these patches, let me know and I`ll e-mail them.

this has been doing my head in

article on it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3432639.stm

You can end up with a hundreed of these emails even if your PC is virus free - it's cloned the address for my website so i'm getting the virus emails (atachments all about 22k big) and the mailservers kicking the mail back to me because its infected!

Not a good time to be on a dial up account!! lol

its doin mi ed in now.checking for emails and get at least 60 every time with the dodgy attachments.cant tell good mails from baduns.

the mails av now stopped,must av ran its coarse.thank god.thought i was gonna get up in the morn and av about 3000000 mails.

Wow aint reached me yet hope they don't.Well none that Norton has advised me off Yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What addy are they being sent from Steve hun.So i know not to even look at them.

if anyone has your email addy in their address book, and they have the virus,and they have then sent emails elsewhere,then the virus is just cloned again and again from address books.it could go on for a while.i have not personally got the virus but have had ,hit after hit on my email from these sources.its a bit annoying.dont know a good email from a badun.had loads that havnt been addressed to me personally,but used part of my email addy like the bit after the @.mind saying that,this is all it needs to send an email to you.

oh no its started again.loads now bouncing back from the mail servers.

Just as a matter of interest !,
if you need to do a re-format in XP you can save every email by saving to a disc a file that is within the directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst
This file contains everything, contacts, emails recieved ,sent ,etc,etc.
(That is the directory mine is in ), yours will be in much the same location.
Write this file to a CD and you will have a record of your OUTLOOK information.
I am running OFFICE XP , if you are running standard Outlook you can still find the file by doing a search, write down its directory location and when you have re-done your install and got back on the Net with all your Programs simply replace the new file with your old saved file and everything will be retured to what it was before your re-install.
It has worked for me for over 6 mths , so i see no reason why it should not for you guys !!

Sounds Steve as if you will need a 200 gb drive for yours !!!!!!!!!


When the Chips are down!!, ask for Fish?

The only worms i've got are TAPE WORMS hanging out me ar@e!!!