OT - Beware the virus "warnings"!

satootoko

Received an e-mail today, supposedly from an ISP, alerting me that I had sent a message infected with "Mydoom", the latest in virus monsters. According to the message I had sent one with the subject "Hello" to an address I have never heard of, and their virus detection had caught it. All my outgoing e-mail has been virus checked by Norton for several years, and I regularly update my definitions, but I ran a new update followed by a new scan, which gave me a clean bill of health. I deleted the "warning" without replying, in my paranoid fear that a reply was just what the sender wanted!

Will these creeps never stop?

Askari

Actually, it was probably the virus' doing. When some of these infect the computer of someone who has your address, they copy it for the "author" for future emails they send out. I've been getting some myself and right now am deleting anything with an error message or an attachment.

farthing

What Askari said.

You apparently do not have the virus. Someone who has your address in their email address book has the virus. The virus is using your address as the "from" address when sending itself out to the world.
A number of ISPs will notify you when they have blocked an infected email with "your" from address in the message. I have recieved this messages myself on several occasions. I can assure everyone that "my pipes are clean!"

wybrit

I had trouble with lots of junk email at work this week. I thought I had the virus on one of my computers. Turned out I didn't. This is one of the trickier ones, because one of the junk emails even appeared to come from my own work email address.

No junk emails here at home except the usual solicitation garbage.

These guys are definitely keeping the antivirus software industry alive!

cosmicdebris

Same thing happening here. I am getting several of these a day plus quite a few emails with the virus either already removed and noted by my ISP or snagged by Nortons on my system.

sumnom

It's been happening to me as well.

NJMark1

Same Same

Mark

Duncan

THROW Norton in the bin and get a decent virus scanner - Either PC-Cillin or Ontrack Fix-It-Utilities

1jester

Same story here. They came from unknown people/addresses. My computer wasn't infected, however.

tbirde56

I suggest, if you recognize an address that may be coin related, that a warning should be posted here.
The infected computer owner(s) may not be aware that they have been violated. As the 'sender' addresses are in the infected person's address book then the unknowingly infected person might be found by crossreferencing these message 'originator' addresses.
For instance, I got one today 'from' jim@colonialacres.com. If someone has that address in their address book then there is a possibility that they may be infected and may have sent it.
If you get one from 'yourself' then someone that has your address in their address book sent it.

Aethelred

DEATH TO HACKER TYPES!

1jester

Unfortunately, even death doesn't stop some.....

Luvdawgs

I heard on the news that there is a $250,000 reward out for finding the one or ones responsible for the latest email worm. If those warped mind or minds who created the worm would use their talents for the good of mankind, can you imagine what progress they could make for us?

tbirde56

Here are the coin related ones that I've received:

bob@coinfacts.com
steve@coinscurrency.com
adam@hobby-supplies.com
virgilbr@hobby-supplies.com
moorecoins@aol.com
sales@worldcoinsexplorer.com

Anyone have these listed in their address book?