caryc
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Post by caryc on Oct 19, 2009 20:13:11 GMT -5
Anyone else getting these? I've been getting three or four per week. Just got two today. My Earthlink email program automatically checks my incoming emails for viruses while they are still on the server. Then it sends me a notice that the email is in quarantine. It doesn't download to my computer but it's there in Earthlinks quarantine folder if I want to go look at it. They all pretend to be coming from DHL about a delivery for you. Any of you guys been getting these? Anyway here is what Earthlink sends me when I get one.
MESSAGE QUARANTINED
Virus Detected: CMU-9508-20091019
Message Details:
From: "Manager Brandie Dennison" <labels@dhl-usa.com>
To: <carybwhite@earthlink.net>
Subject: DHL service. Please get your parcel. Delivery NR.033885
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:02:28 +0900
This email included an attachment which EarthLink identified
as containing a virus known as CMU-9508-20091019.
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Post by Mark Terry on Oct 19, 2009 20:37:52 GMT -5
I use Mindspring (way early Earthlink) but I don't use their webmail and I get plenty of spam but nothing like that.
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Post by jimmarch on Oct 19, 2009 20:51:04 GMT -5
I run Ubuntu. What's this "virus" thing of which you speak?
Seriously, I haven't booted Windows on any computer I own in over three years now. Billy Gates doesn't own me, neither do Ukrainian hacker gangs or whatever.
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Post by the priest on Oct 19, 2009 21:28:54 GMT -5
Cary,
Contact your internet provider and forward a few of the e-mails once you have a contact. They can blacklist the sender and that will end any concern,.... unless they're using multiple ip addresses.
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Post by J Miller on Oct 19, 2009 21:39:04 GMT -5
My wife and I get this crap all the time. We just delete it. About once a week our ISP sends us a message that this one or that one is not from them, it's a spam or phish, or virus.
Joe
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Post by caryc on Oct 19, 2009 22:01:29 GMT -5
Cary, Contact your internet provider and forward a few of the e-mails once you have a contact. They can blacklist the sender and that will end any concern,.... unless they're using multiple ip addresses. My ISP is Earthlink. Earthlinks email program is the one that's catching them. I'm not concerned since they never reach my computer anyway. I was just curious if anyone was getting these particular emails proclaiming to be from DHL about a package delivery. |
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Post by sugarriver on Oct 20, 2009 7:16:18 GMT -5
Virus?
Oh, I remember those.....
Typed from an Apple.
Pete
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Post by caryc on Oct 20, 2009 10:38:10 GMT -5
Virus? Oh, I remember those..... Typed from an Apple. Pete Well, good for you. I have been using computers with Windows since 1985 and have never been infected with a virus. So, you see, you are not really as unique an you think you are. |
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Post by Mark Terry on Oct 20, 2009 10:53:34 GMT -5
Cary,
I got a notification from Earthlink / Mindspring today that looks a lot like the one you've been getting. They're catching them so I don't think it's a problem or at least that's my story...
Us old dogs, dinosaurs, and has beens will keep using what works for us until it doesn't anymore, I suppose.
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Post by the priest on Oct 20, 2009 14:49:23 GMT -5
I work with a lady who used to work for Apple and her husband still designs for Apple. They really are that special. Extra add on virus software helps with the Microsoft systems,.....but it's still not perfect and costs extra money. They Apple systems have basically no firewall holes for a problem to occur and they are all but impervious to virus attacks.
All those security updates you get from 'Microsoft security update',......the ones that say something about potential vulnerability from an outside attacker? You don't have those issues with Apple. No one is going to hack your Apple computer. It happens to Microsoft systems. That's why it's in the commercials too. If it wasn't true,.......Bill Gates and co would be sueing the pants off of Apple.
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Post by Boge Quinn on Oct 20, 2009 15:06:06 GMT -5
That's partly because Macs have a tiny share of the market. Hackers go where the users are.
(Macs really are better - but I still use PCs mostly for software compatibility)
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Post by Markbo on Oct 20, 2009 15:25:34 GMT -5
*SIGH* Elitists Mac users!
Cary... I have not gotten anything like that in a long time.
MS PC User and AT&T customer... I am double evil!
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Post by the priest on Oct 20, 2009 15:41:01 GMT -5
*SIGH* I don't have a mac.  |
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Post by caryc on Oct 20, 2009 17:28:05 GMT -5
When I started in with computers and walked into a software store and looked at the programs available for mac and then what was available for windows there was just no comparison. 25 years now using Windows. You Mac elitists can Hooray all you want, I just don't care. I suppose everything else you have is better than mine too.  |
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Post by cas on Oct 20, 2009 17:39:22 GMT -5
I'm confused... yes I get spam, and virus email (I assume) emails... every single day. I delete them. Is this something new for you?
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