mail viruses

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Well now that's the tricky part, getting rid of it. First, did you
open this
under Windows? If you opened it under Linux, you probably don't need
to
worry about it. Anything with a .exe extention is most probably a
Windows
executable. If you did open it under Windows, then you'll need to
clean it
out. You can't trust your virus scanner to do it for you, as it may
or may
not be corrupted by the virus. (yes there are viruses that attempt to
corrupt virus scanners and/or firewalls) The first step is to
identify the
virus you have. Look at the following web site:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

Here you can run a virus scan over the web. You want to use this to
identify the virus because it is not subject to corruption by the
virus. The accessibility on this sight is tarrible, but it's the only
one of it's kind that I know of. This scanner can clean some viruses,
and if it cleans it out than your done. If it doesn't, then you have
to clean it out yourself. I can't discuss how to do it, as the
instructions very based on the virus.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: mail viruses


> whats worse is I got one from my hanksmith.net support team
> 1 I don't have a support team it gave me a readme.zip with a .exe
> and a password to inter to unlock the program
> what was even dumber of me was I launched the stupid thing before I
> knew what it was.
> I scanned with avg and it didn't find any viruses so don't know if
> this 
was
> a virus or what it was but I got something simular.
> if I do have a virus  the question is what is it? and where can I
> get a removal tool?
> thanks
> hank
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <showell at lrxms.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:55 AM
> Subject: mail viruses
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Yes there are some amazing viruses or whatever you want to call
> > them running amuck. Check out the following its pretty
> > interesting. I've not included the header info, but its the text
> > of the message that I find slightly amusing.
> > Note there is no attachment so don't be alarmed by what you read.
> >
> >
> > Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
> > From: support at lrxms.net
> >
> > [-- Attachment #1 --]
> > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
> >
> > Dear user of Lrxms.net gateway  e-mail  server,
> >
> > Our main mailing server will  be temporary unavaible  for next
> > two days, to continue receiving mail in  these days you  have  to
> > configure our free
> > auto-forwarding  service.
> >
> > For details see  the attach.
> >
> > Best  wishes,
> >     The Lrxms.net  team                            
> > http://www.lrxms.net 
> >
> > [-- Attachment #2: Information.pif --]
> > [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 16K
> > --] 
> >
> > [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this
> > part) --]
> >
> > The part that is amusing to me is I didn't know I had a support
> > team, I didn't know I had a mail server/gateway, and well
> > although lrxms.net is my domain, I don't have a web page at
> > http://www.lrxms.net. I am very interested in this virus all the
> > same for what its doing.
> > Clever!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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