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    No, I haven't caught the blasted thing.

    This thing is actually causing me the most grief due to spam.

    I get about 20 emails a day with the @#$% thing attached from tons of different addys into both my normal and junk mail box.

    And since it's running rampant on the various yahoo groups I'm on, of course there's another 50 or so emails along the lines of folks either scolding so-and-so for having sent them the virus (not realising that the virus choses random addys from the real victim's book in order to make it harder to track), people discussing how to deal with, the obligatory idiots bragging how l33t they are for having avoided being infected, etc.

    So even though I haven't been directly affected by this blasted thing, I'd still give a considerable sum to be there when the @#$% who wrote it finally has karma catch up with him and I'd easily pay 10 times that sum for the privilage of being the person who does it to the stinking @#$%.

    /sigh
    Cigarskunk!
    No more EQ for me till they fix the crash bug.

  • #2
    Yes, I particularly enjoyed that first morning at work when for every infected email that came in, Outlook generated another to inform me that I'd received an infected email. Apparently stripping the attachment from the emails in question so I couldn't get to it anyway wasn't enough. Spam x 2.

    /commiserate
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    • #3
      I arrived at the dorms, expecting to be able to get some work done without the nagging of my family (and, yes, play massive amounts of eq before school starts TODAY!)

      hah.

      net was down in the dorms.
      1. Serial was not posted on time.
      2. My artist still doesn't have my scripts.
      3. My page, the anime club's webpage, and the service fraternity's webpage did not get worked on at all. (and I can't do it on my own computer, I don't know how to install a php mod thing on my comp.)
      4. I couldn't even check the storywindow-mod stuff I did.




      Anyone wanna go PKing with me ? We'll give this wuss the booty-smearing of his life.




      The one thing that really hacks me off? or scares me, I can't tell which...

      my BF says that this virus thing was not 'malicious'. Like someone is just going through and making blank bullets to fire at the rest of the world, to prove how weak our defenses are. Like this person is trying to make us realize how much *certain operating systems and the programs they use* really do suck, and need to be fixed, before someone truely malicious comes along and really does cause some real havoc.



      I think I'm going to be burning back up CDs today, tyvm.

      /comfort skunk

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      • #4
        It got inside our firewall at work - IT had it cornered pretty quickly, but our network was like swimming through molasses for a couple of days.

        (Hi people! see the email from IT a few days saying click here to patch?! *grumble*)

        Burning CD's/DVD's is good. But don't fret too much. "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."


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        • #5
          We got the virus here on our computer. The lovesan version of the msblaster, I guess its one of the not so trong strings because our computer wasnt shutting off immediately it was shutting down at random times which allowed us to go in stop the msblaster process then delete the files and download the security patch. A simple solution really but this computer didnt have a virus scanner so we had to download one from the internet then we searched online to find a simple fix (I was surprised there were so many differnt ways of removing the darn thing). Of course after that was done is when I started getting the "helpfull" emails. go figure.
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          • #6
            Try being the only desktop support person for a 45-person financial aid office for a private university the opening week of school. *My* office is protected, we're patched and our virus software is up-to-date and running. The email server has been programmed to strip out the virus attachments, and my users are smart enough to trash and delete the stupid emails when they come through.

            However, the 6,000 or so students that just arrived, and various other campus offices, are NOT patched and do NOT have their virus software up to date. Needless to say they are not helping the situation....I've already received over 100 junk/spam/virus mails today. Some of our very visible staff members (the dean, his admin assistant) have received over 500 today.

            My guild has been wondering where I'm at... I've been nursing a huge headache for the last 2 weeks!
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            • #7
              tell cairn to make you some tea and give you a backrub!!! and give him a hug for me


              I was laughing my behind off when out hospital IS got hit with it - healthcare management can be some of the most IT inept people EVER, I swear. 10 million news sources plus our IS department pleading not to open any weird stuff, but noooooooo, curiousity kills the cat. Luckily, we run the patient information systems on non-windows 'ware, specifically so stuff like this doesn't happen.

              And, of course, I'm not involved in the IS department, so I can giggle all I want without stressing. And I had just gotten over the stomach ache from guffawing over someone IN the IS department installing gator and hotbar, because they seriously thought they would improve productivity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

              ya, we have like the best tech support evah

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              • #8
                For the first 2 days I got over 200 eMails with "the virus" not blaster, the sobig one.

                I get about 20-40 per day now. I'm sick of it. If someone wants to change the world writing virii is not the way to do it. Get off your butt, back away from the computer slowly and go outside and do something.

                I'm sick of this.......
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                • #9
                  I cleared Niami's mailbox this morning... (having some mail problems :/) it had 140 or so of those virus email's 34 general and porn spam (yeah... I am SURE she want's to see horny housewifes..) and 6 real pieces of mail from nice people that contributed to the site...
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                  • #10
                    /snickers at pr0nspam

                    back when i thought that going through and clicking that 'remove me from this list' link, and inserting my email and clicking 'submit' would actually TAKE ME OFF the lists...

                    I came across one pr0nspam with a disclaimer at the bottom, very very close to this:

                    "If you are recieving this email, it is because you signed up on a Double Opt-In List. If you chose to contest this claim, we and our lawyers will take time out of our busy schedual to go through our logs and show you when and with what email you signed up."

                    I kid you not.

                    I wonder if I could have done some legal action against them... granted, it would have been my word against theirs, but I think I was under 18 at the time, and oh I know perfectly well that I have signed up for exactly ZERO pr0nspam email lists...



                    Mean and subversive people need to be xfered to Sullon so we can PK and CC their sorry po's.


                    I find it greatly amusing that when I sign up for a new email address... even before I send any mail, it's already getting spammed with crap. /sigh.


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                    • #11
                      Well, I've been able to take some comfort in the fact that I'm begining to get virus emails from some of the spammers in my junk box - nice to know that the idiot that's been causing everyone else greif has caused them grief as well - I think I'd actually be willing to reduce the amount of time I'd work on the @#$% who wrote the virus by 10% just for that.

                      So, is this virus the one that's got the message to Bill Gates (or was it Sony ) that basically says, "Stop putting out new stuff until you've finished the old stuff you've put out" or words to that effect?
                      Cigarskunk!
                      No more EQ for me till they fix the crash bug.

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                      • #12
                        Only 20 emails?

                        I have an Internet-based business. I have been cleaning out an AVERAGE of 500+ emails a day with this stupid virus attached. I also prescreen my mail using MailWasher Pro, which helps me get rid of a lot of it before it ever hits.

                        And people wonder why I run behind a double firewall (hardward AND software)...

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                        • #13
                          OK, this is not a virus, but related, and its pissing me off. Have any of you had a program called ystckao32 downloaded onto you computer?

                          Apparently, a company called adtomi created this thing, and its supposed to be opt in, but I;ve had it downloaded onto my system twice, while using EZboards, and haven't opted in for squat.

                          What this progam does, is generate huge quantities of popups, even when you are not browsing, and resets your homepage to zestysearch.com

                          Its easy enough to remove, just delete the file by the name listed above, from both your windows directory, AND your temporary internet directory.

                          BTW, the one other side effect I noticed to that program is that it interfered with my connection to EQ, causing me to LD several times in one night, which rarely happens now that I have DSL.

                          Anyway, my rant is : I HATE those evil (@#$* at Adtomi, and hope they all choke on their own bile. Some methods of making money are just too reprehensible to be allowed, and I think this is one of them. STAY OUT OF MY COMPUTER ADTOMI!!

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                          • #14
                            Okay, let's not go to the level of screaming nasty names and and wishing violence on persons. Doing either is a violation of the community rules here at EQTraders.

                            Closed.
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