[Dx-qsl] Virus

Sat Oct 5 06:58:00 2002

I receive a Email from Kurt Brandstetter.
He send the virus BIGBEAR with his email, so don't open it!!!.
PA3EPG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Brandstetter" <[email protected]>
To: "DX-QSL" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] Virus
> Hello from Vienna !
>> Todays morning I got an email from my email address (???) with an
very old
> text I have sent 2 years ago to the DX-QSL reflector and its sure
that I
> don't have this text or email any more on my PC. Normally some
viruses take
> some random text from the harddisc and use it in the email to
which the
> virus is attached. But in this case this inpossible. On the other
hand I
> have scanned my PC yesterday 3 times after receiving emails
(about 20 !!)
> with a virus to be sure. All its clean and I used the virus
definitions from
> 4. October 2002 with my AVP scanner.
>> So please be careful, but its sure the email with the virus is
not sent out
> from my PC. Never a virus (like the I-Worm types) sends itself to
the
> infected PC. I have never seen this. But I think its enough for
this time, I
> got about 30 or 40 emails infected in the last 3 days, but they
where all
> blocked. And I use Netscape email and not Microsoft Outlook which
is used
> for looking in the address book. I have no Outlook addressbook.
>> So again, please be careful. I cannot say which virus it was,
because I use
> programm for reading in times like this (when its "Virus Time")
as text file
> direct from the server and do not download it with my email
program. The
> program I use for it is an email notifier named "Magic Mail
Monitor Vers.
> 2.8" and its very useful as i see the name, source and size of
the email
> before I load it from the server with an email program. All the
infected
> emails in the last days had a size of about 50 kB or more.
>> Excuse plese this off topic email to this group !
> Kurt
> --
> 73 de Kurt OE 1002419 ICQ-UIN 43074273
> CCA member AC01-01249 NCDXF #4175 INDEXA #1720
> Homepage: http://www.swl.net/oe1002419
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