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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 2:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(19153 messages posted)
I think what is happening is what is called spoofing. The
Sobig virus you may have heard about is putting in a return address that is from
the address book of the PC
it has infected. So one of your EMail contacts has a
virus, and his PC has been sending out EMail with your
address as the return..... This won't help solve that problem, but if you are concerned
about your own
Outllook just open accounts in outlook, and delete everything related to email accounts.
Then even if your PC ever
did get infected Outlook couldn't forward anything. As
for the fact people are getting sent virus infected email
with your name, there is not much you can do. My sister use to send me so much virus
infected email,
that when I visited her once I asked if I could use her
PC, and I changed my address in her book to a phony
address. After 3 years she hasn't figured out I that i don't recieve any email from
her any more. She just
calls me now when I don't respond to a real Email she
might send.
On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 11:58 am, Al wrote:
>On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 8:55 am, sTeve wrote:
>You don't need to remove outlook express. Just don't
>use it. I have not had a virus in the few years I stopped
>using outlook, but even when using Web email you
>should, never, never, never, never, never,,,,,open a
>email attachment, unless you are expecting the attachment and know in advance what
>it is. Also it seems to be a must to have either a hardware or
>software firewall in place now.
>_______
>Hi Steve, and thanks. I gave up on OE long ago in favor of Opera. But lately I'm
>getting mail that states a message I sent, supposedly out of OE, was undeliverable.
> Maybe some other machine with my email address stored in it has a virus or worm
>that is putting my address as the sender. If so, wish I could find it! But if
not,
>I figure it could be a worm in my own machine, and a simple (?) way to defeat it
>would be to remove OE.
>
>For the last 3 hours I've been trying to run the procedure put out by Microsoft,
>but to no avail. What a bear!
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