EMAIL address WARNING

[Mike Dol]

I have my own domain
When leaving my email address on boards like this I use a
unique email address such as "(e-mail address removed)"

recently I have recieved 6 virus attacks with the email
address unique to this board.

BEWARE someone is targetting email address on this board
and maybe others

MS have replied with ... get a life and a get a virus
checker, fair enough, however the email address is a
required field ??!!.

I figure prevention is better than cure, so be warned
don't leave your address here unless you want(..more)
virus attacks.
Mike Dol

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Instead of giving a valid email address, why don't you use a spoofed one?
Many do.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Kate G.]

also -- many of the emails you are getting from "Microsoft" -- aren't from
them.. they are VERY CLEVER look-alikes. Check out the email address of the
sender. And when did Microsoft ever email individual consumers. Those are
the very emails that are carrying the worm. At least that is what is
happening to me.

I found 2 infected files. I run Nortan (it was last updated about 2 weeks
ago). When I updated it and ran it last night --it found 2 infected files.
When I looked at the address of some of my odd messages -- from others and
from "Microsoft" some pretty bogus addresses.

Kate in MN

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have so far received over 150 copies of the W32/Swen@MM worm in the past
two days. All claim to be from Microsoft. None are, of course. Microsoft
does *not* distribute security updates via email. See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/virus/alerts/swen.asp or
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.