ATTN: AMV Creator with a VIRUS

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 10:36 pm

Yeah...I've gotten them from tons of people on this forum that I've never IMed or emailed before.

I only use Hotmail (aside from my work address, which I assure you is virus-free), so seeing as this is probably an Outlook virus, I very much doubt that I am the source.

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 10:40 pm

Has anyone been getting Emails from me?

I havent received any from Hsien or Ermac, nor anyone else for that matter. Very odd.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 10:41 pm

i am scanning qith this prog now... i recieve anywhere from 5-10 of these viral emails a day, and norton scans them as they come in and quarantines them.. so i dont think i am infected, but we'll see.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 11:06 pm

I'll run AVG just to make sure, but I haven't received any e-mails from people, so I doubt I have it.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:08 am

ive been getting them too, just for the record... about 5-20 a day...\ macaffe finds em and eats them, so I'm not infected.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:18 pm

Kusoyaro wrote: I only use Hotmail (aside from my work address, which I assure you is virus-free), so seeing as this is probably an Outlook virus, I very much doubt that I am the source.

Same here, I don't use outlook at all on my home PC yet have gotten emails stating I have been sending a virus. I ran the Trend Micro free scan last night and came up all clean. If anyone without Norton or Mcafee want to check their PC out, a free can be found here...

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:22 pm

The reason I don't have the virus yet is because I don't keep any of you losers in my address book

</neo hentai master>

~klinky

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:26 pm

klinky wrote:The reason I don't have the virus yet is because I don't keep any of you losers in my address book </neo hentai master>

~klinky

I don't even have an address book. =\

Paul Kievits · Post by **Paul Kievits** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:24 pm

Hmm, Wonka said I sent him a virus email but the thing is I've only contacted him via a pm here and via hotmail. Besided, I don't ever open attachments and don't recall ever getting a virus email. The way I see it there are 3 options:

1. This is the smartest virus ever; It opens internet explorer, goes to hotmail, knows my login name and password (which are not cookied or saved anywhere), finds Wonka off of an email I once recieved by him (he's not in my adress book) and sends him a virus file I don't even have.

2. The hotmail server is infected and a lot of people are going to be screwed.

3. The a-m-v.org server is infected (hey Hsien has been getting emails from people he doesn't even have contact with or know).

Any other ideas.

BTW. My virus check was negative.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:31 pm

Vegeta4Pres - all that means is that the person infected has your email address - it doesnt mean the virus came from you.

OK, to narrow this down...

1) The person uses Windows
2) The person uses outlook
3) The person is probably american as the email I received came via netservers.net which is a LA-based company and originated from charter-stl.com

the last one could be faked by the virus though, I think.