Is there some new retarded anti-virus software PTD is using?
Mark Dodel
with the subject "policy-violation found in sent message" showing
headers purporting to be from me and sent to me. Whatever crappy
software they are using should look at where the messages actually
came from which is an IP address in Rumania. All they are doing is
clogging bandwidth with pointless messages. Haven't these experts
ever heard of spoofing?
Someone actually called me from PTD last week before all these
worthless messages started and told me I had an infected system. That
is not possible since I only use eComStation for sending mail and
there are no viruses, worms or other exploits for OS/2 which is the
operating system that eCS is based on. My daughter uses Mac OSX but
she does not send or receive mail through PTD's mail server. Also
there are very few exploits on the Mac and from what I have read none
are viruses. We don't use windows. Its unfortunate that anyone does.
Mark
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Warpstock 2006, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Oct 12-15, 2006 -
http://www.warpstock.org
Mark Dodel
wrote:
-> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:10:10 -0600, "Mark Dodel"
-> <madode...@ptd.net> wrote:
->
-> >All of a sudden I am getting messages from virusnot...@ptd.net
-> >with the subject "policy-violation found in sent message" showing
-> >headers purporting to be from me and sent to me. Whatever crappy
-> >software they are using should look at where the messages actually
-> >came from which is an IP address in Rumania. All they are doing is
-> >clogging bandwidth with pointless messages. Haven't these experts
-> >ever heard of spoofing?
->
->
-> Do they even use antivirus software?
->
-> If so, they should get their money back on it.
->
-> I keep getting the Happy New Year worm in emails, but their crappy
-> software hasn't stopped it once.
->
-> AVG picks up the "postcard.exe" file and quarantines it, but for some
-> reason does not detect the "greeting card.exe" file.
->
-> This is a *really* common virus, yet they don't detect it.
->
-> It's not from anyone I know. It's a forged address.
->
-> I've sent the full headers to the sysop, but as usual I never get any
-> kind of an answer.
->
-> I doubt they even read it.
->
-> Useless.
->
-> Candice
->
->
->
->
->
-> >
-> >Someone actually called me from PTD last week before all these
-> >worthless messages started and told me I had an infected system. That
-> >is not possible since I only use eComStation for sending mail and
-> >there are no viruses, worms or other exploits for OS/2 which is the
-> >operating system that eCS is based on. My daughter uses Mac OSX but
-> >she does not send or receive mail through PTD's mail server. Also
-> >there are very few exploits on the Mac and from what I have read none
-> >are viruses. We don't use windows. Its unfortunate that anyone does.
-> >
-> >
-> >
-> >Mark
Maybe they were trying something out and dropped it. Yes I've been
getting some of those, but they are worthless on my eComStation
machine, so there is no way I can be sending anyone viruses unless I
forward a received post that has one attached. I don't do that. A
new ploy I see is to just put a link to a windows EXE in an phishing
type email. I guess there are some people stupid enough to click on
anything. I did get a post from ptd saying "At present time,
PenTeleData has not received any additional reports traced to your
account. To prevent future problems, please remember to keep your
anti-virus program updated as well as your windows updates." That
certainly gives me warm fuzzy feeling. Obviously they never noted my
comment that I don't run windoze here.