Guest guest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 I'm not pointing fingers but I think its Imstillhere. I tried to read their post and my computer shut down almost immediately. Caitlin Subject: Virus Alert!! To: chronic_pain Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 2:51 PM Someone on our group has a virus on his/her computer. It is copying addresses from the address book and sending out bogus email. Please everyone UPDATE and RUN your anti virus software! If, heaven forbid, you do not have an anti virus program on your computer, you can get one free from: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition http://www.free-av.com/ -- Lyndi Moderator ------------------------------------ Know someone who could benefit from our list? Send our direct sign-up URL: http://www.yahoogroups.com/subscribe.cgi/chronic_pain or write us at: chronic_pain-listowner Manage your subscription with the following email addresses: chronic_pain-owner - Sends email to the list owners chronic_pain-subscribe - Subscribe to the list through email chronic_pain-unsubscribe - Unsubscribe from the list chronic_pain-normal - Switch your subscription to normal chronic_pain-digest - Switch your subscription to digest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 I'm sorry, not sure if it was i'mstillhere or ladyluvvylinda. One of the two shut down my computer. Caitlin Someone on our group has a virus on his/her computer. It is copying addresses from the address book and sending out bogus email. Please everyone UPDATE and RUN your anti virus software! If, heaven forbid, you do not have an anti virus program on your computer, you can get one free from: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Caitlin Kennedy wrote: > I'm not pointing fingers but I think its Imstillhere. I tried to read their post and my computer shut down almost immediately. The virus is not in group email. Some of us are receiving private email that has obviously come from a hijacked personal address book. Please folks, even if you think it couldn't happen to you, it can. UPDATE and RUN your anti virus programs! Running a good anti spy ware program would be a good think too. If you don't know about anti virus programs, let us know and we'll help you through the process. -- Lyndi Moderator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Rob wrote: > I Use Norton Internet security I have not had one virus for this Pain > group from the message board The infected messages are NOT coming from this message board. Since we DO NOT allow attachments in this group, viruses cannot be transmitted via the group's email. Somebody has an infection on his/her computer. It is harvesting email addresses from that person's computer address book and sending out email links to disreputable sites. Whoever has the virus, has quite a few of our addresses in his/her address book. There is no way for us to know who actually has an infected machine. The email posts look like they are coming from this person or that person, when in reality, their names are showing up, simply because they are in the address book of the person(s) with the infected machine. The person(s) with the infected machine(s) may very well be set to no mail. If they aren't reading via the website, they won't even know they're causing problems. -- Lyndi Moderator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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