Friends and fellow list members: It looks like I am in the pipeline of virus spreaders; I returned recently from a couple of weeks of Bambi-murdering in AZ to a messed-up computor. In addition to the many "legitimate" emails I had about a dozen returns from people, most of whom I did not know, saying that they had gotten an email from me with no content (message), and who the hell was I, anyway? During this time I had sent only one email, which was to my brother, who immediately called me and told me that his virus detector had flagged the message as having the badtrans worm. I called a pro, who sent me a fixit program by Semantec which apparently has done its job. If any of you need this program I can email it to you as an attachment. Speaking of attachments, I was told that badtrans does not need to be opened to infect your 'putor, and that it can be passed back and forth, especially on a list. The fix, according to my pro, is to install Norton 2002, which I will do next weekend. Until then, I will run badtransfix before I send off emails, such as this one. Good luck, and sorry 'bout that. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Luck To: canoecountry@topica.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: BWCA CanoeLIST Virus (This is the E-Mail List of the Boundary Waters and Quetico Park) Fellow CanoeCountry List Members Got home last night after an uneventful weekend of ice fishing on Lake of The Woods. In going through my 50 or 60 emails, I saw the the warning about the infected email that came onto the list (thank you by the way for whoever posted it). I looked and sure enough, the person's email was a few lines down with the attachment shown nest to it. When I got down to it, I highlighted it and then scrolled up to the delete button to delete it. Before I knew what was happening there was a window opening on my screen showing a file downloading. I tried to stop it but all hell was breaking loose. The next thing I knew, I was getting a message from Prodigy saying their system had detected a virus in my outgoing email (of course I wasn't sending any) and my computer was contaminated. I got off line immediately. A few minutes later a friend of mine called from the twin cities saying that he had been on his computer and had just received a contaminated email. This morning the computer was disconnected and I hauled it in to the repair shop to get disenfected. Then I had to go buy Norton's Antivirus to install on my work computer (which I'm presently using) just to get back on line, because I access my email from both work and home. I have my own address in my address book to forward emails from home to work and back, so I knew the virus would be forwarded to my work computer too. I have always held by the practice of NOT OPENING ANY ATTACHMENTS in lieu of an anti virus program. Well guess what. I found out at the computer repair shop today that the viruses have gotten so sophisticated that if your Outlook Express is set up to "Preview" you emails (a term I hadn't heard of prior to today), meaning you highlight the email and the message appears in the window at the lower half of your screen, without opening the email attachment - that's enough to get the virus. Their suggestion for unprotected computers was to right click on the email and delete or right click and drag to your deleted items file - but don't left click on an email with attachment. Anyhow, the reason for this long explanation is to do more than simply say I'm sorry for any inconvenience to any of you but also hope my mistake may be a learning experience to someone on how to dispose of infected emails. I apologize again. After the home computer gets out of the shop I'll have to get another antivirus program for it, but since it still operates on Windows 95 - that may be more complicated than I'd hoped. Anyhow, we all live and learn. Rick ------------------------------------- This message was posted to the: Boundary Waters Canoe Area/Quetico Park E-Mail List.
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