James,

This is what I did to find out there is a virus in my pc.
In address book I added fake  e-mail address that starts with
aaaa1234@anyname.virus since it starts with aaaa most likely it
will be the first one to pick. The virus will try to use it
and will attach another virus to it after sending it will bounce back
to me that way I know some things not right plus I know what exactly the

attachment was. So far it happened once and Norton AV was sleeping
some where didn't see it. I think every one should do it. Just send what
ever e-mail address you want after you got it back save it
in your address book. Probably I should patent it "just kidding"

Andre Abelian





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From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Wagner Lipnharski
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:09 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]: -VIRUS- [EE]: Getting at a struct of flags as a byte
?

James Newton, webhost wrote:
> source=
> http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\10\01\121506a
>
> The email did not originate from Ashley. It is this virus that has
> infected a machine of a person who has Ashley (and other) email
> addresses in its address book. The Virus picks two people and random
> from the address book and sends the email "from" one person and to
> the other. The email is NOT from the person indicated in the from
> address. Using SPAMCOP.NET to analyse the headers shows that the
> email originated from telstra.net


New viruses, smart ones. I have seem them weeks ago trying our servers.

I just gave up Norton and McAfee since I found PC-CILLIN, that blocks
viruses right before the mail-inbox, after installing PC-CILLIN, I never
got a single virus problem. Even with all the setup active, McAfee
allowed
some viruses to enter my machine by email in the past. Pc-Cillin does
daily
updates on new viruses, automatically. Other thing extremely recommended
to
have (and run) is AD-Aware, that identify and help you to remove dozens
(if
not hundreds) or Spyware installed "with your consent" in your machine.
Do
you feel your machine lazy? doing some heavy hard disk activity from
time
to time? man, that is Spyware sucking up your PC processing power, it
spread like a pest and it keep sending your "precious personal"
information
to several websites. Run AD-Aware and you will be amazed what is in your
windows registry and running invisible.

Be advised.

Wagner Lipnharski - UST Research Inc
Orlando FLorida - USA - www.ustr.net
/_/_/_/ Atmel AVR Consultant /_/_/_/

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