YAHOO MAIL USERS this THING SUCKS>>???????? what is this?

Virus "W32.Netsky.D@mm" found.

why does every other email I get SAY this?

ALL THESE PEOPLE......

 
alford_jason@ hotmail.com  

is that your name?
Thu 04/08
35k


 
aaron.vonminden@ designworksusa.com  

Re: My details
Thu 04/08
24k


 
nbozz15@aol.com  

Re: excuse me
Wed 04/07
35k


 
hepcat@aon.at  

Re: Your bill
Wed 04/07
24k


 
low_79sportster@ yahoo.com  

denied!
Tue 04/06
35k


 
mattwerksman@ hotmail.com  

is that your car?
Tue 04/06
35k


 
masterpainter@ gr8paint.com  
good morning
Mon 04/05
35k


 
importracingfreak@ hotmail.com  
<Antispam complete>
Mon 04/05
35k

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN

 

NetSky is a virus. Yahoo does a half*** job of cleaning it from emails.

 

general rule of thumb... if you dont know the sender.. dont open the email, just delete it.. especially if it has an attachment!!!

 

some of those are HAMBERS....

and PEOPLE I trade RECORDS with, and SMART ***ES I'm going to KNOCK DOWN,,,,

so it's just a YAHOO thing?
It seems like EVERY email I get I can't ****ing OPEN so whats the POINT?
any other free sources?
whats the BEST ONE?

 

when you click on the email you want to look at, what exactly happens? ive been using yahoo mail for a long time... they are alot better than hotmail

 

It wont LOAD the MESSAGE cause it says that its a VIRUS???

WHERES SAVAGE?
he emailed me?
or did HE???

 

i can email you from work... it deffinately wont have a virus...

could be the people who are sending the emails have virus's.. that and your yahoo account is pooched.. which probably isnt the case

 

<font color="green">These types of viruses steal the contact information out of your email programs and then send themselves out using that information.

Chances are those people have it also.

go to www.grisoft.com and get some FREE virus protection as well as all the info you need to get rid of it. </font>

 

Germ:Sounds like your antivirus software works.

If you get an e-mail with a 17K attatchment,it's probably a virus.
Same for 34k and 50k attatchments.
Only open attatchments that end in .JPG or .bmp Nothing else.
Anything that ends in .exe .pif .tif .zip should be deleted.
Vague subject lines,delete.
Unknown sender,delete.
When in doubt,delete.

And anything with a subject line that starts fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:,delete.
If the sender is too lazy,or stupid to strip the FWs off the subject line,you know their message contains a list of every person who ever recieved that message since it was first sent.

 

What happend to Deathwishkids?

Billy

 

they didn't actually send you those emails germ. the virus sends itself and pretends they sent them. try not to blow your top at a friend for no good reason....

 

The fun thing about that virus is that it can be unrelated to everyone but one person on that list. If I had the virus, it would harvest all the email address in my email program, say maybe outlook, and then s**** one person on there. Let's say someone's email addy in my list is "fred@yahoo.com", it will send emails from my computer, but instead of showing my email address, it shows that it's from "fred@yahoo.com". Fred most likely doesn't have **** to do with it, and never had the virus.

Isn't technology great? We have awesome resources like the HAMB, but then we have little antisocial ****birds in china, or norway, or cleveland ohio who write these viruses because they're too much of a pathetic ***hole to ever get laid, and want to take it out on the world. Even the internet has a ****py side to go along with the good...

 

Germ- I had the free services and got to the point you are at with them- I now pay 69.95 for two years of service from Netaddress.com[USA.NET]-AFTER YOUR USERNAME]
I can now have three times the email storage-spam control[you can block emails that are 'bulk mailed" and aven specify what the subject line and sender and recipeint list has in them before it will allow you to recieve the mail. I am glad to be rid of a lot of the ******** by going this route........ Also you can prevent use of your computer by a "remote user" by a setting on the control panel under 'my computer"

 

Exactly what Rash said. The virus steal contact names to make it easier for you to not notice and open the ******* thing. For as much as Yahoo seems to try and be virus free, I get a lot of this **** as well. Just gotta be careful.

 

Germ, you posted your new address yesterday and perhaps it was picked up by a "spider" or "webbot". That is, a program that scours the web looking for strings of information in a format ie: youremail@****ed.now and then spams the holy hell out of any email, good or bad, that it finds. It depends on how bored the 38 year old programer was in his parents ba*****t when he could not download images of shaved goats in hoboken and his **** distended to that of a grapfruit and could not keep his Cap'n Crunch in.

Why do people do this? Spiders are good for gathering data and then allowing search engines to give the best possible guess when you do a search. It holds on to the info for future and then shares it with sites or it could be a malicious program sent out to wreak havoc.

Test this out, go to google.com and put in your email address, see if it pops up. If it does, sorry Jack, looks like you will be getting **** for a while or until the search engine decides not to have it cached any more.

Hope this helps.

This is not the only answer but it is a likely one.

 

I've had this happen to me with another discussion board. I guess some psychopath stole the e-mail list and started sending viruses to my Yahoo account.

They were always from people that I knew from the board.

Every e-mail had an attachment w/ a virus, but Yahoo caught every one.
People are ****ERS.

-r

 

hepcat@aon.at  

Re: Your bill
Wed 04/07
24k



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Max" Hepcat" is a friend of mine. I´ll ask him if he ever sent you an email and I´ll let you know.

 

Germ the netsky virus gets into your computer and your addresses on your email and then sends everyone you know the virus go to www.bitdefender.com and download the netsky removal tools,there are a couple of different netsky viruses so you may need to download a couple of the tools.These will remove the virus from your system if you have it,not all virus software is able to catch the netsky due to the very crafty way it was designed but with the bitdefender tools you will be able to get shot of it ,best thing is they are free..............Marq

 

You can also download spybot ,this program will get rid of tracking cookies and also ad-aware this one gets rid of other malicious things too and they are both free...............Marq p.s just punch in ad-aware or spybot into google and it will tell you where to get them

 

Everyone needs a good anti-virus program &amp; everyone (especially those with "always on" broadband connections) needs a good firewall.

I'm a big fan of Norton System Works. It slows my machine down, but it's worth it in the long run. The built-in antivirus is the best out there (IMHO) mostly because of it's automatic update feature. Several other major anti-virus programs offer automatic updates, but none are as hands-off easy to use as Norton's (again IMHO).

For email, I use mailwasher (www.mailwasher.com). It is yet another program that you launch that checks your email w/o actually downloading it to your computer &amp; checks for known/possible spam as well as viruses. You then have three options: delete, bounce, blacklist.

If you select the bounce option, it automatically checks the other two boxes (delete, blacklist). When you 'bounce' the email, it gets returned to the sender as if it was an invalid email, so hopefully the spammers take you off their list.

Once blacklisted, you can set it up to automatically delete it even before you see it. Once you've "cleaned" your mail, you can download it to your computer using your normal program.

You also have the option to read it right in mailwasher so if it's questionable, it'll give you the opportunity to check it out before you decide to keep,delete,bounce,blacklist or download to your computer.

I'm making it sound very complicated, but it's a very simple &amp; intuitive program. There is a free version &amp; a pay version - the pay version (Mailwasher Pro) is only about $30 w/free updates. Worth every penny! And it works with online email like Yahoo &amp; Hotmail too, not just pop accounts.

For firewalls, it's hard to beat zonealarm (www.zonealarm.com). Once again, they have a free &amp; a pro (pay) version. This is a pretty good firewall that is also fairly easy to use &amp; "learns" your system &amp; patterns. Once it's set up, it works very well, but it does take a little time for it to completely "learn" your system, programs, &amp; habits.

FWIW, I doubt you have a virus, Germ. Most modern viruses do exactly what others have described &amp; forge the "from" header of the email to appear to be from other folks &amp; then send to everyone in their address book &amp; in their "sent items" folder if they use outlook &amp; retain sent items (you can check that box off if you want - frees up a lot of space if you don't regularly clean it).

 

hepcat@aon.at is my old email-addess, but I don't use it anymore....

strange!

 

Don't be hatin' Germ, that list of HAMBer email addys is probably "s****ed": the virus attacks sorta like this:

1. Look thru the contact list in the victim's email program.
2. Randomly pick a person, A, to send an email "to."
3. Random pick another person, B, and list them as "from."
4. Attach a copy of this program.

So person B gets an email that he thinks is from person A, when in fact it came, unknowingly, from the machine of person C.

Solutions:

1. everybody gets up to date antivirus and firewall programs.

2. A modest new anti-hacking, anti-spamming law that specifies public torture/dismemberment/feeding entrails to dogs for violators.

 

Germ, i get atleast 14 of those a day... Some times its from people i know, or other guys in africa who want my Social Security # to make 30 million by some Bank Scam...

I try to "flag" the email so they cant keep sending them, but it only gets worse.. Better off just ingoring them...

 

**** all this virus and spam ****...

People who spread that **** should be executed!

Sometimes I'm getting up to 10 virusses at once in my mailbox. I'm glad my virus-scanner works well!!

I also had e-mails from friends who got virusses in the mail through my e-mail address. Some guys are using our deadendcruisers.com addresses to spread spam and virusses...

 

Yea, I get them too luckily most of them end up in the spam folder, so I just delete them even if it's from somone I know. If the attachements not a .JPG it get's deleted.

 

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Germ:Sounds like your antivirus software works.

If you get an e-mail with a 17K attatchment,it's probably a virus.
Same for 34k and 50k attatchments.
Only open attatchments that end in .JPG or .bmp Nothing else.
Anything that ends in .exe .pif .tif .zip should be deleted.
Vague subject lines,delete.
Unknown sender,delete.
When in doubt,delete.

And anything with a subject line that starts fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:,delete.
If the sender is too lazy,or stupid to strip the FWs off the subject line,you know their message contains a list of every person who ever recieved that message since it was first sent.

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AND if all else fails , use a Macintosh . They 99% NEVER get viruses

 

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AND if all else fails , use a Macintosh . They 99% NEVER get viruses

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Becacuse no one loves them enough to write a virus for them...I hate windows just like the next guy, but it's a necessary evil...

 

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AND if all else fails , use a Macintosh . They 99% NEVER get viruses

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Becacuse no one loves them enough to write a virus for them...I hate windows just like the next guy, but it's a necessary evil...



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A couple of months ago we had a "HACKERS CONVENTION" in town. It was supposed to be secret, but the press found out and interviewed a young kid that was attending. The press asked him WHY these people wrote viruses. (the kid thought he would remain annonomus)

He "bragged" that because no one would hire him to write legit programs, (at 15 he was too young) he was PROVING himself by comming up with the most malisous viruses he could design!

The reporter then asked, "Did you ever think of designing a USEFULL program?" The kid was stuck for an answer!!

Hell, if I could get the kid to work for me, who knows, he might have come up with a replacement for windows? ? ! !

 

I use Trend Microsystems. Every day for the last 2 months it's downloaded updates because of new versions of viruses.
So far, It's always caught everything before it got to me. I lose about 30 seconds to waiting for the updates to download about a minute after I boot the machine, but it's worth it. When you get antivirus software, set it to check for updates at least daily. If they ever catch these virus writers, I vote we trade them to the Iraqi insurgents for their hostages. Let them burn the hackers alive!

 

Yea I never emailed you either Germ I would call you if I wanted to get some. I have the same thing at work. Its a big problem It show people I knows addys but they never sent me anything. I goes through peoples mail boxes and send emails out to anyone who has had contact with you ... I get about one useful email out of 10 at work. Its a real problem. Sorry Germ wasn't me.. You can email me if you want sometime.

AARON SAVAGE