....when you have:

1) No idea who it's from
2) No idea of it's content
3) No idea of the dangers of virus'

I have had in excess of 30 emails from many people on this BBS containing virus's in the past two days. Can we be a little more vigilant please?

Cheers

Cem

 

worse is a virus I've been getting with a title of RE:. You don't even have to open the attachment to get a virus warning in Norton, so I just delete any 40k emails with title RE:

 

Likewise

I am getting annoyed because I have taken my email off my profile cos of idiots emailing me and yet I still get the virus ones

 

Ditto what Cem said, it's getting really tedious having to delete them all now.

Sal

 

Yep,

Received a dozen or so email's today with the W32.Badtrans.B@mm virus.
Do not know any of the senders, must be in their address book for some reason.

Lee

 

Luckily, I use the scoobynet web mail client and I think (hope, Simon) that it's picking them up

No one should have received any dodgy e-mails from me!

 

I'm one of the IT bods .... so here's a little golden advice.

a) Get your virus checker up todate. If you've got no checking, then get some.

b) Turn off the 'preview pane' in all types of Outlook.

c) As BlowDog said ... DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS ... unless your expecting them.

d) Some of these f*ckers will damage your system even without opening the attachement, so take heed of 'a)' and 'b)'

J.

 

It also helps if you dont have any friends

 

I haven't got the virus from anyone.

 

how do you turn off the preview pane in outlook ??

thanx

 

Err, view > preview pane, isn't it? Just a toggle thingy?

 

In outlook:

view - layout - then untick the preview pane box

BOB

I have received hundreds of emails from scoobynet users in the past few days for the free phone logo's and NOT had any with a virus-I THINK!

[Edited by WRXBOB - 11/28/2001 8:34:47 PM]

 

Kaspersky anti-virus (avp) has served me very well only a small downloaod from the net and cost £13.00 !!!!
this has been fautless at work and home (free updates as well)

edited cos my spoiling isnt faultless

[Edited by mattstant - 11/28/2001 11:31:50 PM]

[Edited by mattstant - 11/28/2001 11:32:30 PM]