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Offline Octavius

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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2004, 12:41:04 PM »
Yeah, well McAfee says it was a false alarm...

The wookielove newsletter will continue as planned.
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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2004, 01:34:40 PM »
Damnit!  It IS real.  Apparently Mcafee didn't pick up the MyDoom.f the first time around.  Got an email from my ISP.  I'm using my laptop at the moment and am scanning a second time.  


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« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2004, 01:44:47 PM »
Amateurs!  You spelled Wookiee wrong!
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« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2004, 01:47:53 PM »
Have you considered:

#1.

or just

#2.

Option #1 includes #2, btw.
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« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2004, 01:49:51 PM »
Go with #2 and get hardware for Internet security. And btw, you can find Norton AV for a small fraction of the retail price if you go with oem. Try http://www.pricewatch.com
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« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2004, 01:56:13 PM »
True, but as a heads up, most OEM copies only come with a 3 month virus subscription instead of a 1 year sub, so make sure the OEM copy is more then $15 below the retail copy.
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« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2004, 02:02:13 PM »
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That's wierd, I've been reading your e-mail for months, and never noticed anything wrong.

Well, besides the http://www.wookielove.com newsletter.

-Sik


Can you send me Oct's password so I can read his email, too?  I tried "LaughItUpFurball" and "ArmOutOfSocket" but neither one seemed to work.
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« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2004, 04:49:49 PM »
Alright, I've scanned twice with McAfee and once with Norton.  They claim to find nothing.  Yet, I'm getting e-mails saying I'm infected.  One person replied and said his anti-virus had detected and squashed a virus in one e-mail... and I never sent that e-mail in the first place.  Plus my ISP also claims it cleaned an outgoing virus from an attachment that I never sent.  

Help?
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« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2004, 04:54:46 PM »
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True, but as a heads up, most OEM copies only come with a 3 month virus subscription instead of a 1 year sub, so make sure the OEM copy is more then $15 below the retail copy.


Here's Norton AV 2003 with 1 yr update for $10.

http://www.store.yahoo.com/glob2000/noan201yefru.html
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« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2004, 04:56:45 PM »
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Alright, I've scanned twice with McAfee and once with Norton.  They claim to find nothing.  Yet, I'm getting e-mails saying I'm infected.  One person replied and said his anti-virus had detected and squashed a virus in one e-mail... and I never sent that e-mail in the first place.  Plus my ISP also claims it cleaned an outgoing virus from an attachment that I never sent.  

Help?


You're likely clean. Recent viruses send themselves with a forged from address. Which means that someone that has you in their address book is infected and sending this as you.
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« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2004, 05:03:49 PM »
Great... so if this keeps up my ISP will shut down my connection til I get the "problem" fixed.  My non-computer savvy brother had this happen to him (same ISP).  I could also just kill my current e-mail address and use another.

But that sucks.  Can the ISP do anything about it?
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« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2004, 05:15:16 PM »
It's odd that your isp claims they blocked an attachment coming from you. Normally that would indicate you have a virus. However, since you ran the online scans they should have cleared you. Puzzling, maybe you should talk to your isp.
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« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2004, 05:17:28 PM »
Why don't you just tell us what virus/worm they claim you have?  If we have the name, we can tell you whether or not it forges the From: line.  If it does, you're not infected and you can give the web page to the ISP and tell them to shove it.
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« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2004, 05:17:54 PM »
You may have to reformat:(
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« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2004, 05:22:43 PM »
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Why don't you just tell us what virus/worm they claim you have?  If we have the name, we can tell you whether or not it forges the From: line.  If it does, you're not infected and you can give the web page to the ISP and tell them to shove it.


I already did ^ up there a few posts.  "MyDoom.f"

I just got off the phone with my ISP and they say it's highly unlikely there to be any forgery.  They claim I probably had it and already cleaned it off (but somehow missed it in the process :rolleyes: ).  The messages  I'm getting are just residual bouncebacks from when it supposedly was on the system.
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