I'm I the only one who gets 130kb emails?

July 26, 2003 4:30 PM from

I keep getting 120 to 156kb emails from people in my address book but they are not sending them.

I got one email from greenreaper today, another from IPlural, and others from friends and associates on my email (while others are just from anyone)

Is any one esle getting these emails?

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Reply #1 July 26, 2003 4:41 PM from

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IPlural would have to be sending his from jail.....

There was talk of an e-mail worm this week-end........give me a couple minutes to do a little quick research (memory ain't what it used to be

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Reply #2 July 26, 2003 4:43 PM from

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Someone has a virus! It's probably either fizzer, bugbear or klez. It's someone who has all your addresses. The virus will use the address book of the victim to send out e-mails. Someone needs to do a virus check...

Reply #3 July 26, 2003 4:53 PM from

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http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5055759.html?tag=fd_top worm story
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp patch

If you already have hotfix 823980 installed then this shouldn't be affecting you. I seem to remember about two weeks ago someone started a thread about the same thing happening to them (getting e-mail that wasn't sent by the author) Maybe someone will remember it and give you whatever the answer was they came up with....

Reply #4 July 26, 2003 5:06 PM from

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Check here for more info on virus threats: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

Reply #5 July 26, 2003 5:49 PM from

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has any one experinenced getting email in your inbox that is not addressed to you at all? this has been happening to me the last few days. Any thoughts?

Reply #6 July 26, 2003 6:49 PM from

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it's happened to me too!
( but I had a virus when I checked

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Reply #7 July 26, 2003 9:01 PM from

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Kona: Maybe you are in the wrong house!

Reply #8 July 26, 2003 9:30 PM from

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Wrong house? what do you mean? I sign on under my email name on hotmail and in my inbox are emails from people to other people that are not addressed to my email. maybe hotmail has a virus?

Reply #9 July 26, 2003 9:50 PM from

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kona....boXXi was making a joke......think of your ISP as the postal system............sometimes they just hit the wrong mailbox. Maybe you'll get something more exciting then your own mail

Reply #10 July 27, 2003 12:55 AM from

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whats funny about this is the email I use is a msn account. It is not on my computer at all. Its totally on the hotmail/msn servers

I am not using Outlook or that MSN explorer thingy. I would just sign in through internet explorer browser.

Anyway, I guess it time to change my email addy anyway. How about joe10249?

Reply #11 July 27, 2003 12:56 AM from

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Oh and thanks for the help. I'll let my friends know about this bug.

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