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Virus Alert

Feb 9, 2004 1:18AM PST

I received the following email from a Postmaster:
V I R U S A L E R T

"Our viruschecker found the

W32/Mydoom.a@MM

virus in your email to the following recipient:

-> ed

Delivery of the email was stopped!

Please check your system for viruses,
or ask your system administrator to do so."
I have Norton AV checking incoming and outgoing email. I have Norton Firewall. I have Ad-Aware, Spyblaster and Spybot.
I ran a virus scan and there is nothing. I ran the removal tool for Mydoom and received a message that I wasn't infected.
Any suggestions?

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DELETE it !!!!! You are NOT alone !
Feb 9, 2004 1:23AM PST
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You didn't send the email ....
Feb 9, 2004 1:26AM PST

Someone else PC might get infected and it have your email address.. the virus use it to send email to anybody...

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Re:You didn't send the email ....
Feb 9, 2004 1:38AM PST

Thanks to all for responses. I help a lot of my neighbors when they have computer problems that are basic and I can handle. Many did not have antivirus so I download the free AVG and set it to update automatically. That is because people do not update definitions on their own and of course that renders the anti virus program useless. Glad to know that my alert was a false alarm. If it comes again I'll have to try to figure out who has my name in address book and doesn't use antivirus program.

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Re:Re:You didn't send the email ....
Feb 9, 2004 1:59AM PST

Hi Auggief,

Re: "...people do not update definitions on their own and of course that renders the anti virus program useless."

Viruses and worms like MyDoom and others can render your antivirus programs useless (even if definitions were just updated) the first few hours or maybe days until a program comes up with a fix and then you are able to get into the crowded link to get a new definition download. That is why caution should be exercised (and perhaps you should advise your neighbors) about opening attachments in emails:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=10381&start=0