by Simon 22 Replies latest jw friends
I must have annoyed someone I guess ...
I have seen some emails that have been faked to look as though they came from me (and this site). They typically have a subject line such as 'a nice game'.
Please be careful about opening any emails especially if the have attachments. I will never send attachments to anyone 'cold' without discussing it first.
Thanks Simon.
YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
Thanks Simon.
Erm.. I know you are a very busy person but may I ask why you haven't replied to my email? I need tech. help on my sig.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=28315&site=3
Some instructions on how to determine if you have 'got it' and how to remove it:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_KLEZ.G
A very very nasty one too! We got it here at work....took forever to get rid of it!
I have received two emails which were masquerading (sp?) as Simon, with nasty attachments -- didn't infect me though!
Furthermore, I received a "bounced message" from an email server which said it couldn't deliver my email because of the ".EXE" attachment. Only problem is, I never sent that email. Further analysis of the undeliverable indicated an AOL user; an AOL user was also implicated as the originator of ONE of the two messages I rec'd from the Imitation-Simon.
So, someone is sending (dangerous and infected) email and MASQUERADING as Simon, Quotes, and who knows who else? Could this be SPIRITUAL WARFARE? Maybe, but one thing is certain: it is a violation/abuse of email protocol, netiquette, and Terms Of Service agreements. I have reported all three cases I am familiar with to the appropriate administrators.
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Theocratic warfare, the SOCIETY strikes again.
YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
This has happened to me too.
An acquaintance who had me in their address book received the KLEZ-HAMM virus (or whatever it is). The worm infiltrates the victims Microsoft Outlook address book, and using the e-mail addresses it finds there, launches itself to everyone in the address book.
For example victim has A, B, C, D, E in his address book.
The worm will mail itself, using the cover of addresses A, B, C, and D to person E. When you check the technical gobble-de-gook (not the "official" term, of course) at the end of the mail, the source will actually be the victim, even though the address in the header looks like someone totally different.
The attachment does not appear to be an .exe file, but can present itself to be a .jpg, .pdf, .zip file etc.
I've gotten in the habit of checking the header against the gobble-de-gook at the end of the mail to make sure the sender's address matches.
I also have a "hotmail" account to which I send mail from people I do know - which offers the option of scanning the attachments for viruses with McAfee online prior to downloading them. I've been lucky so far.
Love, Scully
IF I may, we got this Virus about 3 weeks ago, it was sent via a trusted member of this board. IT was a .exe file and I opened it, my computer was infected. And it was a pain in the ass to get rid of.
When I asked (prior to knowing I had a virus) the sender of the e-mail what in the world this file was, They stated THEY never sent the email, and they did not. The subject line was "Cassiline, some questions" The senders computer was never infected.
This worm attaches itself onto your address book, your computer may be free of the virus and is replicating itself attaching to your email address book again without your knowledge. So your Virus Scan may come up clean because its already done its damage by sending itself to someone in your address book then moving on to its next victim.
Just a little information. Again it a nasty worm and had us shut down for quite a time. This is when I purchased Norton instead of PcCillin,
because PcCillin never picked up the worm, and IMO the instructions on how to remove the worm from PcCillin were not clear and hard to understand....this coming from an computer idiot <blush>
C
When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
