Re: [APML] OT: Anti Virus Software

["Michael Stecker" <mstecker@dslextreme.com>]

Hello Bert, Michael and John:

Thanks for answering my question about the sobig.f emails.


Michael Stecker
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bert Katzung" <katzung1@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] OT: Anti Virus Software


> Hi Michael:
> SOBIG may be one of those "spoofing" worms that uses your address, not
your
> computer. So the e-mails with the infection are coming from the hacker's
> computer under your address but your machine is not infected. At least
> that's the way I understand it.
> Once they have  your address, you can't do anything about it, but at least
> you're not responsible for what's going out. I notice that a lot of people
> use modified addresses in their e-mails, like "soandso at isp.net" putting
> in spaces and the the word "at" instead of the at sign. That presumably
> slows down or prevents automated harvesting of your address by hackers'
> programs.
> Maybe one of the computer experts will chime in here?
> Bert
>
> Bert Katzung
> katzung1@comcast.net
> www.astronomy-images.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Stecker" <mstecker@dslextreme.com>
> To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 10:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [APML] OT: Anti Virus Software
>
>
> > Hello Jim and others in APML:
> >
> > At least you got an answer from Norton's.  I emailed them for help and
> never
> > got an answer.  One thing that bothers me is that I keep on getting
emails
> > related to the SOBIG.F worm as well as emails from others saying that I
> have
> > sent them emails with SOBIG.F infection.  I used the Symantec Fix Tool
for
> > SOBIG.F several times and it has NEVER detected SOBIG.F on my computer.
> Can
> > someone explain why I am getting and sending infected SOBIG.F emails if
> the
> > worm is not in my computer (according to Symantec/Norton's)?
> >
> >
> > Michael Stecker
> > mstecker@dslextreme.com
> >
> > My Web Site:
> > http://www.homestead.com/mstecker/index.html (INDEX)
> > http://www.homestead.com/mstecker/astrogallery.html (Astroimage Index)
> > http://www.homestead.com/mstecker/placesindex.html (Places Index)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@dc.rr.com>
> > To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:45 PM
> > Subject: [APML] OT: Anti Virus Software
> >
> >
> > > Maybe you guys can help.
> > >
> > > I recently updated my Norton Anti Virus subscription.  Hours after
doing
> > > this it stopped working correctly.  It now gives and Activex error
> message
> > > and just sits there refreshing the status of my security features.
> Norton
> > > support has been less than useless trying to blame it all on MS IE.
> I've
> > > reinstalled IE and searched the MS database to no avail.
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen this problem?  If not what does everyone think of
> McAfee?
> > >
> > > Frustrated with incompetent support staff.  Even worse, I'm an ex
> > Technical
> > > Support Director so it's really got me mad.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > Astronomy  Web Page at:
> > > http://www.astroimager.net/
> > >
> > >
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