Hi Everyone
Please be advised that there are some serious virus attacks occuring at present involving email and other web services. You should make sure your machine is protected against sober 32 virus and viruses in general. I am monitoring a large increase in attacks against Government traffic over the weekend and again today. I have also had a lot of traffic from this and other forums rejected as containing Sober 32 over the past 3 days.
The forum itself is safe as it is protected, it is your ISP etc you may have issues with or email you recieve.
Regards
John P
By: willy.henderick - 13th December 2004 at 16:47
Mac users are not affected by PC designed virus.
By: dhfan - 13th December 2004 at 11:59
I use http://www.mailwasher.com
Unfortunately the site’s down for re-construction at present so it doesn’t help immediately.
However, it shows what mail’s on the server and gives the option to delete it before it even reaches your PC. I’m sent around 100 emails a day and they’re approx. 80% spam.
Mailwasher makes it a minor inconvenience, not a problem.
By: DazDaMan - 13th December 2004 at 08:22
This might be related to the dozens (and I mean dozens) of crap e-mails I’ve had over the weekend. E-mails from various mailboxes saying messages couldn’t be delivered (and one or two from genuine sights, such as the Aeroplane Monthly forum).
I’ve found a god way to tell that these are viruses, without even opening the messages, is to check the size of the e-mail. Usually, the ones I’ve had are around 40-80K, and have attachments. Binned the lot, problem solved.
By: Smith - 13th December 2004 at 07:48
For anyone without current (or any) virus protection software you can use TrendMicro’s housecall facility. It’s free, effective and 100% safe/reputable.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
By: RobAnt - 13th December 2004 at 07:38
it is your ISP etc you may have issues with
In the UK at least, your ISP is not responsible for protecting you from viruses unless they specifically offer that service. Even then, they’ll not reimburse you for any remedial work if one does get through.
Also remember that if your PC tells you it has detected a virus, then your AV software is doing its job. Check what it has done (read the popup carefully) – you only need to take action if it says it cannot do anything about it.
It is the ones you are not told about that’ll get ya!
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