Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00217)

Hallo Bart and all,

My views are:

Thanks. I agree.
Anyways, I checked my PC.
And I had indeed a few Trojans.

So following my intuition, that there is no smoke without fire:

It is as difficult as ever to surf the Internet these days
without being infected. So the beginners aught to watch out.
Just alone to surf websites on the Internet can cause a Trojan to be
installed on your PC.
Thousands of PC's are in fact infected today, so the stats says. What about
your PC ?
(To those in need for Anti-trojan help: http://www.pcflank.com/art26d.htm
are said to be good Software.
It often costs cool cash though.
Also the PDF file:
http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/network-protection-against-trojans.pdf )

Well as long as my pc havn't crashed I can live with it.
But when other people starts using your forum membership...(... here should
have been a few words I censored...)


from
M. Sufilight...with a smile...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bart Lidofsky" <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: <ham>; <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: ham,Re: ham,Re: Theos-World To Eldon --- Re: Hey, ya! =))


> Morten N. Olesen wrote:
> > I tend to follow my intuition...
> > Anyways I am sure it is not a worm or a virus, - not a Bagle.
> > I have checked.
> > So what is it then ?
> > A Trojan Horse and a hacker with a bad sense of humor?
> > I think so.
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> I am 99.9% sure that there is someone on this list who has been
> infected with a virus (since the attachment was removed, I don't know
> which one). There was probably an email from you somewhere in their mail
> (almost certainly Microsoft Outlook) to this group. The virus sent
> emails to every email address it could find, using random emails from
> the same list to plug into the "FROM" section. By coincidence, it chose
> your name to go to this group.
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> When viruses started using email to propagate, people would discover
> they were infected by all the feedback they would receive. By changing
> the "FROM" address, it becomes much more difficult to find the infected
> machine. The only thing you can be sure of is that, if you receive an
> email with a virus attachment, the person in the FROM: field is almost
> certainly NOT the sender.
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> Bart
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