Off Topic (sort of): Insane Pictures List

[Guest guest]

> Well, if EVERYONE on this list would run an updated virus checker it

> would clean off the KLEZ virus and this would stop. But the

infected

> person needs to do this in order for this to work. I have Norton

> Antivirus on my computer and it updates daily. It's not that

> expensive and it would make everyone's life a lot easier.

This is not completely true... I send and recieve yahoo!groups mail

only thru the website. I don't use my computer to send mail to

Graduate-OSSG. I also get the subscription messages.... But only when

I send messages to Graduate-OSSG. Furthermore, my computer is UNIX

based and not susceptible to KLEZ. Therefore the problem is not the

sender... it's somehow the list... Yahoo!Groups has the problem...

they need to clean it up.... The question becomes how do we put this

back in their laps??????

Jan

[Guest guest]

> Well, if EVERYONE on this list would run an updated virus checker it

> would clean off the KLEZ virus and this would stop. But the

infected

> person needs to do this in order for this to work. I have Norton

> Antivirus on my computer and it updates daily. It's not that

> expensive and it would make everyone's life a lot easier.

This is not completely true... I send and recieve yahoo!groups mail

only thru the website. I don't use my computer to send mail to

Graduate-OSSG. I also get the subscription messages.... But only when

I send messages to Graduate-OSSG. Furthermore, my computer is UNIX

based and not susceptible to KLEZ. Therefore the problem is not the

sender... it's somehow the list... Yahoo!Groups has the problem...

they need to clean it up.... The question becomes how do we put this

back in their laps??????

Jan

[Guest guest]

Months ago I had this problem, but it stopped finally. I'm sure hoping it

doesn't start up again. However, for a couple of days last week I was getting

emails from someone's screen name (who shall remain nameless) on one of the WLS

lists that always had an attachment attached to it. She was NOT the one sending

this email. I believe someone had invaded her address book. Did anyone else

get these emails? I notified the person and also AOL and it stopped.

Dianne

[Guest guest]

Months ago I had this problem, but it stopped finally. I'm sure hoping it

doesn't start up again. However, for a couple of days last week I was getting

emails from someone's screen name (who shall remain nameless) on one of the WLS

lists that always had an attachment attached to it. She was NOT the one sending

this email. I believe someone had invaded her address book. Did anyone else

get these emails? I notified the person and also AOL and it stopped.

Dianne

[Guest guest]

Months ago I had this problem, but it stopped finally. I'm sure hoping it

doesn't start up again. However, for a couple of days last week I was getting

emails from someone's screen name (who shall remain nameless) on one of the WLS

lists that always had an attachment attached to it. She was NOT the one sending

this email. I believe someone had invaded her address book. Did anyone else

get these emails? I notified the person and also AOL and it stopped.

Dianne

[Guest guest]

Well, you're not exactly right either. It COULD be yahoogroups, but

it still could also be an individual. You see, even though you post

through the Web site, your posts get sent to other people who choose

to get messages through their email program. When your message with

your email address on it gets to a person who is infected with KLEZ,

you get subscribed. So it makes no difference whether you are on no-

mail or not or whether you have UNIX or not. It happens because your

email address gets into an infected person's program. If the infected

person was on no-mail, this would not be happening. The KLEZ virus

harvests email addresses that come through the infected person's

email program and then sends out messages using those addresses. If

the infected person was on no-mail, they wouldn't be getting our

messages and therefore our email addresses wouldn't be harvested and

we wouldn't be getting subscribed.

So you see, it could be the list itself, or it still could be just

one individual. We just don't know at this point!

Amy

>> This is not completely true... I send and recieve yahoo!groups

mail

> only thru the website. I don't use my computer to send mail to

> Graduate-OSSG. I also get the subscription messages.... But only

when

> I send messages to Graduate-OSSG. Furthermore, my computer is UNIX

> based and not susceptible to KLEZ. Therefore the problem is not the

> sender... it's somehow the list... Yahoo!Groups has the problem...

> they need to clean it up.... The question becomes how do we put

this

> back in their laps??????

>

> Jan

[Guest guest]

Jan, I wrote to Yahoo customer service a few months ago when the Klez

virus was REALLY bad....and I got NOT even a form letter back in email.

They are burying their heads in the sand with this virus.

Fortunately.....inspite of the fact that I have had a few people that I

don't even KNOW try to tell me that my computer is contaminated......but

I check for viruses daily and do my Nortons updates daily.

Debbie in Gig Harbor

ladybostons@...

[Guest guest]

It's not just you. I didn't associate it with posts to the Graduate list, but

now that you mention it, that is when it happens to me.

Keltie

wlsgal99 wrote:Everytime I send a post to this list (and I am positive that

it's

this list), I get automatically subscribed to a list called " Insane

Pictures " . Within seconds of posting here, I will get an email in my

box saying " thank you for subscribing " , every single time. I emailed

the web master of that site and they said the KLEZ virus causes this,

but that I am not the infected party. The person/place I am emailing

is the infected party, which would mean that this group is somehow

infected. Anyone else getting subscribed to this list or is it just

me?

Amy

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[Guest guest]

It's not just you. I didn't associate it with posts to the Graduate list, but

now that you mention it, that is when it happens to me.

Keltie

wlsgal99 wrote:Everytime I send a post to this list (and I am positive that

it's

this list), I get automatically subscribed to a list called " Insane

Pictures " . Within seconds of posting here, I will get an email in my

box saying " thank you for subscribing " , every single time. I emailed

the web master of that site and they said the KLEZ virus causes this,

but that I am not the infected party. The person/place I am emailing

is the infected party, which would mean that this group is somehow

infected. Anyone else getting subscribed to this list or is it just

me?

Amy

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[Guest guest]

Sure enough... I posted to Graduate-OSSG using Yahoo from a computer that is

virus scanned every 4 hours (at work)... and I got the msg from Lyris

Listmanager. I don't have the Klez worm, and even at home, my antivirus

software is active continuously.

Keltie

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