[Amps] Spam and worms attachments from mailing list

[Will Matney]

Saad,

It sounds to me that you have a bug. The worm infection is caused by clicking on an e-mail attachment. They'll have some sort of executable zipped in a zip file telling you it's a patch. news, or something that would have you to open it and use it. Never execute any attachments unless you know for sure who sent it. A big problem is computers which the whole family uses. Kids are really bad to click on attachments, they'll never tell it, or swear they didn't to the partents.

If you have an anti-virus software, now would be the time to upgrade the definitions and run a system wide scan. Nothing normal should ever try to access your address book.

Best,

Will


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On 8/27/05 at 11:11 AM Saad Mahaini wrote:

>Speaking of warms.  I don't know what I have on my computer, but a weird
>problem just developed with the Outlook yesterday.  I get a message that a
>program is trying to access my Outlook mailing list and asks me if I want
>to
>allow or deny.  It will continuously pop up when I choose deny.  If I was
>to
>choose allow, then there is a time interval associated with that, One min,
>2
>min, etc up to ten min.  This is how long the authorization period is, then
>of course it will pop up again after this period is lapsed.  This is
>crippling, since you can do nothing with Outlook while this message popup
>window is activated.  
>
>Does anyone have experience with this.  I have tried everything I could
>think of, but im throwing my arms up in the air at this point.
>
>73 Saad N5FF      
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
>Behalf Of Will Matney
>Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 10:49 AM
>To: amps at contesting.com
>Subject: [Amps] Spam and worms attachments from mailing list
>
>The new worm out has been hitting me every day, receiving as high a 6-8 a
>day. Where this is a new e-mail addy, and this list is the only one I
>signed
>back up with so far, that means it came from here. However, the e-mails
>were
>either harvested off the list, or ones computer was infuected with the worm
>and sent mine, and everyone elses addys out over the net.
>
>Anyhow, there's a gold lining to the cloud. Today, in the Washington Post,
>it was reported that the two hackers responsible for this last worm was
>arrested. One was in Turkey, and one in Morocco. One 18, and one 21 years
>of
>age. You can see the full story at the below link. I figured some would
>like
>to know that some justice was done. By the way, the two were dumb enough to
>sign the code..Hi Hi.
>
>article;
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601
>201.html
>
>Best,
>
>Will
>
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