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Actually there is nothing to fear from these postings. Microsoft or someone else is doing a good job of cleaning them out before they arrive here. I have yet to see one that really has anything in it. If you look at the size of the attached zips you see they are on the order of 1KB size. That's basically a ASCII file with one letter in it. There is nothing in the attachmemts so there is nothing in these postings to worry about.

That said there still is something to worry about. If anyone receives a similar looking message in their E-mail Inbox that is on the order of 160KB; then, yes, do not open it. That IS infected. Otherwise nothing here.

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George Hester
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"dcdon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message newsPHfb.45601$(E-Mail Removed)...

Thanks George,
Guess you caught me assuming with out d/l the zip file to scan it.
Just don't want anyone to get caught. If I only saved one, that would be one that
didn't have to go through that misery.

:-)
don
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"George Hester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
Actually there is nothing to fear from these postings. Microsoft or someone else
is doing a good job of cleaning them out before they arrive here. I have yet to
see one that really has anything in it. If you look at the size of the attached
zips you see they are on the order of 1KB size. That's basically a ASCII file
with one letter in it. There is nothing in the attachmemts so there is nothing in
these postings to worry about.

That said there still is something to worry about. If anyone receives a similar
looking message in their E-mail Inbox that is on the order of 160KB; then, yes, do
not open it. That IS infected. Otherwise nothing here.

--
George Hester
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"dcdon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsPHfb.45601$(E-Mail Removed)...

I'm still seeing some that are 157KB that do have the full attachment. I
~believe~ that I saw some of them new today, but I could be mistaken. The
majority of them are stripped though. Good job Microsoft!

Ray at home



"George Hester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
Actually there is nothing to fear from these postings. Microsoft or someone
else is doing a good job of cleaning them out before they arrive here. I
have yet to see one that really has anything in it. If you look at the size
of the attached zips you see they are on the order of 1KB size. That's
basically a ASCII file with one letter in it. There is nothing in the
attachmemts so there is nothing in these postings to worry about.

That said there still is something to worry about. If anyone receives a
similar looking message in their E-mail Inbox that is on the order of 160KB;
then, yes, do not open it. That IS infected. Otherwise nothing here.

--
George Hester
__________________________________
"dcdon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsPHfb.45601$(E-Mail Removed)...

What? Good job Microsoft? With the resources MS have none of these viruses
should have ever hit the newsgroups. A simple subject filter would have
caught most of them. I think its absolutely pathetic.

"Ray at <%=sLocation%>" <myfirstname at lane 34 . komm> wrote in message
news:eg$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm still seeing some that are 157KB that do have the full attachment. I
> ~believe~ that I saw some of them new today, but I could be mistaken. The
> majority of them are stripped though. Good job Microsoft!
>
> Ray at home
>
>
>
> "George Hester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Actually there is nothing to fear from these postings. Microsoft or
someone
> else is doing a good job of cleaning them out before they arrive here. I
> have yet to see one that really has anything in it. If you look at the
size
> of the attached zips you see they are on the order of 1KB size. That's
> basically a ASCII file with one letter in it. There is nothing in the
> attachmemts so there is nothing in these postings to worry about.
>
> That said there still is something to worry about. If anyone receives a
> similar looking message in their E-mail Inbox that is on the order of
160KB;
> then, yes, do not open it. That IS infected. Otherwise nothing here.
>
> --
> George Hester
> __________________________________
> "dcdon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> newsPHfb.45601$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>

Microsoft is a company of people just like any other company. These things
will happen no matter who the company is.

Ray at work

"Brendon Rogers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> What? Good job Microsoft? With the resources MS have none of these viruses
> should have ever hit the newsgroups. A simple subject filter would have
> caught most of them. I think its absolutely pathetic.
>

Well,
unfortunately I once posted this group. Since then I get about 50 MB of
virusposting-traffic on my mailbox. I will never again use an real existing
mailadress in a newsgroup. Seems that there are still some loosers in this
groups which do not have any virusprotection on their machine. Can't we
start a kind of counter-virus which does a format on all drives on every
infected machine :-)

Isn't there any way to find out who is the real sender of that virus?


"Ray at <%=sLocation%>" <myfirstname at lane34 dot com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Microsoft is a company of people just like any other company. These
things
> will happen no matter who the company is.
>
> Ray at work
>
> "Brendon Rogers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > What? Good job Microsoft? With the resources MS have none of these
viruses
> > should have ever hit the newsgroups. A simple subject filter would have
> > caught most of them. I think its absolutely pathetic.
> >
>
>

Andreas, its not a question of users in this group not having anti-virus
software which is resulting in you receiving tons of spam email. The
spammers have scripts (or bots, short for robots) which trawl the web (e.g.
Google's Groups) for text which resembles an email address - ie anything
with (E-Mail Removed)ever. As you have discovered, never use a valid
email address in a newgroup.

Keep in mind the virus posts are more than likely coming from PC's whose
owners never ever even visit these newsgroups.

To see who is the real sender of the virus you need to examine the posting
headers and look at the NNTP-posting-host. This will give the IP address of
the host used to post the email, but most of the time it will be from a
dynamic address such as DSL or dialup. In any event, with this particular
virus the individual owners of the PC's sending the virus are not doing so
knowingly - their PC's have been infected with the worm and are sending out
the virus without the PC owner knowing.

"Andreas Voßloh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well,
> unfortunately I once posted this group. Since then I get about 50 MB of
> virusposting-traffic on my mailbox. I will never again use an real
existing
> mailadress in a newsgroup. Seems that there are still some loosers in this
> groups which do not have any virusprotection on their machine. Can't we
> start a kind of counter-virus which does a format on all drives on every
> infected machine :-)
>
> Isn't there any way to find out who is the real sender of that virus?
>
>
> "Ray at <%=sLocation%>" <myfirstname at lane34 dot com> schrieb im
> Newsbeitrag news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Microsoft is a company of people just like any other company. These
> things
> > will happen no matter who the company is.
> >
> > Ray at work
> >
> > "Brendon Rogers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > What? Good job Microsoft? With the resources MS have none of these
> viruses
> > > should have ever hit the newsgroups. A simple subject filter would
have
> > > caught most of them. I think its absolutely pathetic.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

In microsoft.public.win2000.general Brendon Rogers <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> What? Good job Microsoft? With the resources MS have none of these viruses
> should have ever hit the newsgroups. A simple subject filter would have
> caught most of them. I think its absolutely pathetic.

Even better, a filter which discards all messages with attachments. At
least what trash does get through will be harmless,

--
Gary L. Smith (E-Mail Removed)
Columbus, Ohio

> Even better, a filter which discards all messages with attachments. At
> least what trash does get through will be harmless,

This is quite common to other servers, they have a .attachments for
attachments, post there. Everything else is either stripped or imaged to
..attachments.

How about a size limit? I can see no reason for one to post more
than -say- 30K, regardless, unless they have an attachment. In that case,
move to .attachments. They should run a scanner on that group and delete all
viruses immediately. All it takes is a daemon.

--
Andrei "Ndi" Dobrin
Brainbench MVP
www.Brainbench.com