I never even though of this..Need virus help.!!!!

[fgarvb1]

One of my wife's buds sent her an e-mail load with kak worm.
Norton hammers it before it gets completly downloaded. The
trouble is it's still in her e-mail and tries to download
everytime she clicks on outlook express. I know that the answer is simple; But can someone tell me how to get rid of the damn e-mail message. Then she can download and read the rest of them..i'm not afraid of kak worm.

Thank you for your trouble.

fgarvb1

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't know how to kill a kak worm.

However, a word of advice for future prevention. Kill Outlook. Tell her to get a server based email account. Tons of free ones like hotmail and at lit.

Whenever you connect to the net Outlook automatically downloads all email from your ISP onto your hard drive, whether you open it or not. This is why you can look at your mail while you aren't connected.

Hotmail and the ilk only download the messages to your temporary internet folder when you click the link to open it. Otherwise, the email itself stays on the server.

This hasn't been that big of a deal because normally you have to open an attachement to get the virus, no matter what email service you use. However, an enterprising fuck created a virus that can attack your computer through Outlook whether you even know the email is there or not. At present it requires that the malicious sender of the virus know your exact IP to do it, so the likelihood of this happen is slim and none.

Anyway, whenever you send mail out from Outlook, you're sending your IP address to whomever you sent the mail to. If you're like me and get a fresh IP addy whenever you dail up, it's no big deal, but if you have cable or DSL and your IP is static, well you're giving out your computer's address and not all people will be nice with it, or be ignorant about what to do with it.

 

[Angel]

You can change the settings to NOT download them when you log on.

 

[Katerina Val-Kyrie]

I am not a happy camper due to virus's. Right now, I have the hybris B virus in my outlook express, what makes it worse, is this is the second time it has happened to me. The first one was called hahaha@sexyfun.net, the second, with a different title, but still had hahaha at the beginning. I was so pissed off, my brother and I had to manually remove the first one as AVP, couldn't even get rid of it. This one has to manually be removed. Now, only 3 weeks later, I got it again. And like Killermuffin said, when you log on, it automatically is downloaded. Perhaps you can shut this option off, but still, when you do check your mail, the virus is instantly there in alot of cases. With this one, you do not even have to open it, actually, it won't let you. You have it whether you like it or not.

I already changed my address and have opted to just use outlook for family, but sometimes I wonder if I should bother using it at all. At least with my other mailboxes, virus's won't be on my harddrive, and most others have automatic scan which is good. God, the first time I got this hybris worm, my kids downloaded LoveLetter the same friggen night...and you guessed it, two virus's in the span of a few minutes. My brother was not impressed! He is my puter genious, and advisor, and I am so lucky to have him. Not everyone is so lucky to have someone they can turn to. Anyways, here are the links to the virus's I have gotten below if anyone needs some info on them.

Hybris-B

Love Letter


Katerina

[Edited by Katerina Val-Kyrie on 02-02-2001 at 04:16 AM]

 

[Closet Desire]

Outlook and email...

MS Outlook (not Express cuz I don't use it) has had some vulnerabilities to attachments which is why it's important to log onto MS periodically and download the updates including the SR-1 Patch (which is huge). You also need to keep your AV program completely up to date. I leave Outlook active all the time and connected 24 hours a day. Yep, get viruses from time to time but they get nabbed by Norton, moved to quarantine and either fixed or squashed. If your AV didn't delete it then you probably aren't up to date.

I have the IP address for the source of the hahaha that you received if you want to forward a complaint to somebody. I have the ISP and even the idiot's name. Check the threat I put up a few days about about the hahaha virus.

Ever vigilant...

 

[fgarvb1]

Thanks for the feed back.! Problem solved.!!

I had my wife call the internet people. They deleted the offending e-mail. Guy said "you mean norton grabbed
and stoped it before it finished downloading.? Damn that's good.!!"

Lady who sent e-mail was advised to up date anti-virus.
The reat of the e-mail was download ok.
My wife is happy again.