FREE BEER IF YOU KNOW THIS!

[Jordan]

I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
that I have your attention...

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
help.

 

[Dean]

Does it have nonsense addresses and an attachment? I get
like 10-15 a day, and I think it may be what is wrong with
my comp.

 

[mikey]

might not really be returns from your system.
the new worm has some mail that resemble returns.




(e-mail address removed)



I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
that I have your attention...

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
help.

 

[Jim Macklin]

People with computer that have your email have the
infection. The virus is using their computer with your email
address as the sender. When an email can't be delivered and
the mail server sends a notice you will get a notice, it may
be just a few KB or it may include the whole email and virus
laden attachment. The virus can also send phony
"non-delivery" notices.

Just delete all the stuff, nothing much else you can do.
You can get software that will automate the process or you
can do it manually.

I just found that I was getting the stuff only in one
account and Hotmail was putting it all in Junk mail I set
Hotmail in the web page options to just send all junk mail
to the deleted items folder. I can look there for anything
that might be wanted (has not happened in a long time) but
putting it directly in the "deleted folder" keeps it from
closing down my 2 MB Hotmail account.

You are probably NOT infected and you won't be if you follow
good safe sex, I mean Internet practices.

I only drink beer when in the company of beautiful young
women and my wife objects to that, you drink the beer.

| I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
| that I have your attention...
|
| I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
| my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
| unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
| stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
| still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
| help.

 

[Howard]

You probably don't have a virus. But, someone who has
your email address does. The virus sends out emails to
randomly constructed email addresses (mostly bad ones)
and substitutes good addresses from the address book as
the originator of the email.

 

[Jordan]

Yes, Nonsense e-mailadresses! Thanks for your help guys,
and I'll get right on the drinking on your behalves!

 

[Never anonymous Bud]

I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
that I have your attention...

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
help.

They were NOT sent from you, they were sent using your address,
which was found in an address book, document, or usenet post on
someone elses computer, which is infected by the GIBE virus/trojan/worm.






To reply by email, remove the XYZ.

Lumber Cartel (tinlc) #2063. Spam this account at your own risk.

It's your SIG, say what you want to say....

 

[Mike Matheny]

You very well may have either Klez or SoBig. Get a scanner for these at
Symantec's site and boot up in safe mode and scan.

 

[squidfoot]

Okay, that's a unique tag line. Jimmy Mac is right. They're just annoying.
don't open the atttachment. Create rule from message. As many as 20 or 30.
where from line is MS Corporation etc. add a subject line like "Critical
Patch" and check delete box. Then they just go straight to delete and you
permanently delete them a couple times a day or more, depending on the size
of your box. Go beer !

s

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus messages, but
you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a rule, based
upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the emails from
the server without ever downloading them.


Bruce Chambers

--
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

 

[me]

I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
that I have your attention...

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
help.

Sounds like you are the one that needs the 12 pack!

 

[me]

I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
that I have your attention...

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
help.

Just format your hard disk and change your e-mail address.

Now how do I pick up my beer?

 

[Mike Mueller]

:: I will buy you a 12 pack of PBR if you come get it! Now
:: that I have your attention...
::
:: I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
:: my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
:: unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
:: stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
:: still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day! Please
:: help.
:
: Sounds like you are the one that needs the 12 pack!

You most likely do not have a virus. The lastest virus
going around is creating the mail and sending it to you-
you'll notice quite a few of those messages have
attachments, which is carrying the payload. Just delete and
keep up to date on your virus definitions.

You can keep your Puke-Barf-Ralph beer.

Mike

 

[Alex Nichol]

I seem to have gotten a virus that sends e-mails from
my e-mail addresses and I keep getting replys saying
unsent, or undeliverable, or returned. I have used the
stinger virus remover, I have Panda Anti-virus Pro, yet I
still get these e-mails. Like 500 of them a day!

There is probably nothing that you can do (short of giving up that
email address and getting a new one). Because the replies are going
back to the *apparent* source - you - but you are not the source. The
virus is on someone's machine where you are in the address book, and the
virus has picked on your address to claim as the 'from' one. So all you
can say is that someone with you in the book is infected.