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Diva

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Apr 26, 2002, 2:25:03 PM4/26/02
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FYI: I've gotton some strange things in my e-mail the last few days,
including 'returned mail' messages of mail I never sent [to webmaster at
al-aholics.com and one titled 'Hello, Honey' to weirdalfanclub at
tripod.com] as well as a blank e-mail with Elvis's return e-mail addy
and the subject Monday, November 20, 2000. I don't know if this is
coming from someone else's computer; I ran [completely updated as of
yesterday] Norton antivirus software and it didn't pick up anything. I
don't open attachments unless I know they are coming and from whom. If
anyone has any info on any recent viruses that might do this sort of
thing, please let me know or post it here for everyone's benefit.

Cheers, Diva
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ELISEANNS

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Apr 26, 2002, 4:03:06 PM4/26/02
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Diva
Thanks for letting us know in advance. I couldn't believe it when someone sent
me the snowwhite virus about a month ago! I deleted it right away. That was
the third time I was sent that virus!

Elise

Tera Doty

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Apr 26, 2002, 7:02:50 PM4/26/02
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Nan,
I've had the same thing happen to me, with emails coming from (or
bounced back) from other Al fans or 'webmasters'. Very weird.
Tera

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DavidTanny

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Apr 28, 2002, 11:43:06 PM4/28/02
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What's weird is that I'm getting e-mails I never sent bounced back to me
as someone is spoofing my e-mail addy in the FROM field, they send it, it bounces,
and it comes back to me.

I've got only 300 back e-mails to sort through. Too much of it is spam. :-(

d.t.

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Elvis

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Apr 29, 2002, 2:04:32 PM4/29/02
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"Diva" <nmcca...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> FYI: I've gotton some strange things in my e-mail the last few days,
> including [...] a blank e-mail with Elvis's return e-mail addy

> and the subject Monday, November 20, 2000.

Diva, when I got back I had the similiar things in my inbox, lots of mail
with attachments from names I recognized, and many I didn't. Also quite a
few "return to senders." I ran a virus scan last night and Norton found a
file infected with W95.Hybris.worm. I got rid of the file and ran a virus
scan again this morning and Norton found nothing so hopefully I've
erradicated it from my machine.

I apologize if this stated with me, I never open attachments unless I'm
expecting them, so I don't think that's how it got onto my machine. It may
have something to do with Webspan's new mail server. They moved over to a
new mail server last week and for a while I was getting mail intended for
other Webspan users. I asked them to take those forwards off my account and
they appeared to have done so this weekend.

I haven't sent any attachments recently to anyone so if you got mail with
attachments from me recently, delete them. I also didn't send email to
anyone on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday while I was at ALCON III, so if you
have mail from me in that time frame, delete it also. And it's probably a
good idea for everyone to run a virus scan just in case.


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