VIRUS ALERT! DELETE MY MAIL!

Thank you for the warning Styl

it is called 'mydoom'. Got it removed now.

Jeeze. I am constantly getting those emails when I don't even send one. I'll know now not to open.

If it's mydoom then chances are that anyone who got it sent from you wouldn't see you as the sender, so your advice wouldn't have helped...nice to try though.

/me offers advice to everyone: never open attachements of any type from anyone unless you have a very good reason to expect it and the e-mail is very clearly from the right person and relates to the attachement. Even then, open it carefully - giving a good virus scanner a chance to look at it, and NEVER open anything which can execute code on your machine no matter who it's from, or how cool you think it might be. Also, run a good firewall, apply all service packs and security updates fairly promptly even if it does tie up your modem for 3 hours to download them.

ahh norton.swats em like flies.

DesignCaddy - but of course, norton will only protect you from things it knows about (OK, and some it doesn't), and since a lot of virus/worms spread to millions of people in a matter of hours now, this is not adequate protection on it's own if people don't take sensible precautions - often refered to as practicing safe hex...

#6 by Skinner Sput - 4/2/2004 1:20:20 PM DesignCaddy - but of course, norton will only protect you from things it knows about (OK, and some it doesn't), and since a lot of virus/worms spread to millions of people in a matter of hours now, this is not adequate protection on it's own if people don't take sensible precautions - often refered to as practicing safe hex...

Being and enterprise antivirus admin, I agree with you. However, in this case, the most recent MyDoom variant is a month old...with the original discovered back in late January. There's just no excuse for having defs that far out of date.

Style... Hobby Computer, Netherlands?

Yes.