ChromWolf
08-14-2003, 04:57 PM
I think I've contracted a new virus!!! I've tried various ways of trying to locate or detect it, and all have failed.... Here's the story....
At first, I started getting tons of forwards with attachments from one of my friends. He obviously wasn't sending them of his own volition, which indicated to me that he had some kind of mass-mailing worm that was using his Address Book. The subjects of these e-mails ranged across the following (before I stopped logging them due to my own system problems):
Fw: Who is ur Best Friends :-)
Fw: Stuff
Fw: U r the person? !
Fw: Send This to everybody u like :-)
Fw: charming relations to enjoy
And the attachments (again, before I stopped checking) included the following:
loversgang.scr
stuff.zip.bat
werfriends.scr
sharelove.scr
friends.scr
stuff.zip.scr
stuff.zip
I had received MANY MANY forwards from him, and after a while, had to block his e-mail address (though, FWIW, I was kind enough to notify him and tell him to communicate with me via some other method to notify me that he had fixed it).
However, in looking over the messages, I must have somehow contracted it myself....? I admit my security settings may have been inadequate, and I sometimes fall behind on Security updates, so something running automatically in the background is entirely possible....
Later, another friend said I was apparently broadcasting the first friend's passwords....? When Friend #2 told me what the broadcast password was, I recognized as indeed being a password Friend #1 uses, and knew this wasn't something I had seen on the Symantec site thus far. I've also searched over the Symantec site listing all of the above subject headings and attachment files, and found nothing.
Further more, I've run the Housecall webscan at the Trend Micro webpage, and that scan also came up with zero viruses.
What can I do? Who can I contact? (I don't want to pay Symantec their $25 or whatever fee just to help them do their job).... Incidentally, I run Windows 98SE, with Outlook Express 6. Only after getting the virus have I run the latest critical updates from Microsoft--today, specifically.
Also, FWIW, I note alot of the viruses lately attempt to shut down anything associated with a virus scanner, or the windows update applets----this did not appear to happen to me.
Can anyone help??
At first, I started getting tons of forwards with attachments from one of my friends. He obviously wasn't sending them of his own volition, which indicated to me that he had some kind of mass-mailing worm that was using his Address Book. The subjects of these e-mails ranged across the following (before I stopped logging them due to my own system problems):
Fw: Who is ur Best Friends :-)
Fw: Stuff
Fw: U r the person? !
Fw: Send This to everybody u like :-)
Fw: charming relations to enjoy
And the attachments (again, before I stopped checking) included the following:
loversgang.scr
stuff.zip.bat
werfriends.scr
sharelove.scr
friends.scr
stuff.zip.scr
stuff.zip
I had received MANY MANY forwards from him, and after a while, had to block his e-mail address (though, FWIW, I was kind enough to notify him and tell him to communicate with me via some other method to notify me that he had fixed it).
However, in looking over the messages, I must have somehow contracted it myself....? I admit my security settings may have been inadequate, and I sometimes fall behind on Security updates, so something running automatically in the background is entirely possible....
Later, another friend said I was apparently broadcasting the first friend's passwords....? When Friend #2 told me what the broadcast password was, I recognized as indeed being a password Friend #1 uses, and knew this wasn't something I had seen on the Symantec site thus far. I've also searched over the Symantec site listing all of the above subject headings and attachment files, and found nothing.
Further more, I've run the Housecall webscan at the Trend Micro webpage, and that scan also came up with zero viruses.
What can I do? Who can I contact? (I don't want to pay Symantec their $25 or whatever fee just to help them do their job).... Incidentally, I run Windows 98SE, with Outlook Express 6. Only after getting the virus have I run the latest critical updates from Microsoft--today, specifically.
Also, FWIW, I note alot of the viruses lately attempt to shut down anything associated with a virus scanner, or the windows update applets----this did not appear to happen to me.
Can anyone help??