I've been worm attacked!

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I think someone sent me a worm. DOn't open any emails that come from me today. I'll post an update on whether or not I've gotten rid of it.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002

Answers

Joy, check the address, maybe it was Jay.

Wildman, (wanting a worm too)

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002


Thanks, Wildman!! I really needed a laugh after the week I've had!

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002

My worms are "lovers". How do you think I got 2000 pounds from 2 cups. :>) Go to trend micro for a PCillian housecall

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002


Cute, Wildman! what exactly IS worm though, and how do you know you have one?

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002

Okay, Wildman, you often amuse me, but that was laugh out loud funny! If I knew what happened to the worm, I would send it to you.

I scanned my computer with my resident Norton Anti-Virus. Someone else recommended the website that Jay mentioned, so I used that to scan also. Both showed no corrupting, evil worms or viruses. So I guess I'm clean.

But let me tell you what happened, and then if anyone knows anything about it, tell me what you know, please.

I got an email from a cyberfriend. Subject line: Tag You're It! I didn't think anything of it, opened it, had some goofy old lady cartoons, said to forward it to five women friends, so I did, because I thought the cartoons were funny. I never do this, I'm usually too damned lazy or I think it will be annoying to the recipients. This time I DID though.

Anyway, I did ONE email, with five names on it, including Julie. I sent it. Norton came on, as usual, with the little screen saying that it was scanning for viruses. Nothing found so off it went. I was still poking around in my email screen, when all of a sudden, the Norton scanning screen for outgoing email came on and said it was scanning THIRTEEN emails. Of course I knew I hadn't sent any emails, and this made me very nervous. I was about to start a Norton scan (which just ran yesterday) when one of the in-town friends called me and said she thought I had a worm, because she had just received a whole long list of emails from me all with the same subject line. She uses Eudora for her email and so has never been vulnerable to these wormy virusey things. (I have been too lazy to download it and experience the learning curve.) She was able to look at the thing and said it was full of code similar to wormy emails. So that prompted this thread and my repeated scans.

I later heard from another friend that she had gotten multiples TOO and had just deleted all of them. So I assume the other three did as well, but I haven't heard from them yet.

So what do you think? Should I assume I'm worm free? Perhaps this spamming effect was all that the email was designed to do? Maybe it's not a real worm? I don't know!

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2002



A worm is generally a sleeper virus that will replicate and pass itself on before activating itself at a predetermined time. This way it hits many machines at the same time.

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2002

Joy,

It wasn't the cartoon with the women waiting for the perfect man, was it? I received one of those too.

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2002


Um, Terri, I don't remember if it was the perfect man. Scary old lady spraying perfume on herself was the first one . . . . I can't look at it, I deleted it too! So did yours spam a bunch of people? Or perhaps YOU were too smart to send it on (unlike some other nameless idiots whose initials are JF) . . . . :-(

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2002

Joy, don't beat yourself up. Once you get one of these little darlings they send themselves out without your help! Some are scheduled to send themselves out every ten days or so. I've pretty much given up worrying about bugs since I went to Navigator because most of these things are written for Microsoft. That doesn't mean I can't get one but my chances are greatly reduced. By the way, from your description of what's hapening with your computer, you have one.

Wildman, (wormless) Uh, Jay, don't even go there!

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2002


:>) :>)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2002


Joy,

I didn't send it to anyone-nothing to do with being smart though :->. Usually, I just don't forward much of anything that I receive like that.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2002


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