[mou] Virus posts

[Terence Brashear]

Hi Nancy

Thank you for the note.  Prior to disabling the
account I checked the symantec anti virus site for
information on how this virus is delivered and assess
the threat.  This virus pirates the person's PC and
sends out mail to everyone in the address book.  The
biosci server which hosts this list is using a
Intrastore server which does reverse lookups to verify
the orginating domain is not spoofed/phony.  The virus
stopped being mailed to the list as soon as I disabled
the account.  As a moderator I did what I thought was
the best solution to put a stop to this.  As you can
see the virus stopped being mailed to the list as soon
as I disabled the account.

Like I said in my original note....the best policy is
to not open attachments, even from people you know,
without scanning them for viruses first.

If anyone has any other virus related questions or
questions regarding the list in general, please feel
free to contact the moderators at
mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu.

Regards,

Terry Brashear
Co-Moderator MOU-NET


--- Nancy Nielson <nnielson@lakes.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> You do realize that often it may have a name of the
> "offending" account, but
> it may be a phony.
> I have seen email that contains my name and email
> address and it has not
> come from me!
> Perhaps this "offender" wasn't the real culprit,
> someone simply hijacked
> their name, happens all the time these days.
> As a rule of thumb the most important thing you can
> do is get an anti-viral
> software and keep it up to date. You can set Norton
> to get updates
> automatically.
> Have it scan your incoming and outgoing mail.
> If you are using Microsoft products, make sure you
> are getting the updates
> from Microsoft. They come frequently, and there is a
> big one coming in the
> next couple of weeks.
> 
> Another trick a computer expert told me about, is to
> put your first entry in
> your address book, something like 000Virus Alert! It
> doesn't have an actual
> address so will hang up and alert you to a virus
> trying to send emails to
> people in your address book.
> 
> If you have anti-viral software and keep it up to
> date, and also those
> Microsoft updates,if you use Microsoft products, you
> should be protected.
> Any attachments,or emails will be scanned for
> viruses, Norton catches emails
> that don't even have an attachment, but have a virus
> in them.
> I get a high volume of email for several businesses
> we have.
> Some days I get 10-20 emails containing a virus, and
> often they will contain
> the names of people I communicate with, but they are
> not from them. I have
> checked into it and there is no way to trace them if
> their tracks are
> covered.
> The scoundrels are getting trickier and trickier,
> its a daily ritual to make
> sure I have all the latest updates from Norton and
> Microsoft.
> 
> Nancy
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Terence Brashear" <birdnird@yahoo.com>
> To: <MOU-net@cbs.umn.edu>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 1:40 PM
> Subject: [mou] Virus posts
> 
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > The offending account that was sending out the
> > attachment with the virus has been removed from
> the
> > list.
> >
> > I did this as soon as I realized who the
> originating
> > email address was.
> >
> > As a rule of thumb always scan any attachments
> before
> > opening them regardless of whether or not you know
> the
> > person sending them.
> >
> > Terry Brashear
> > MOU-NET Co-Moderator
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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