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Title: Possible computer worm
Post by: Lawrence on February 01, 2012, 03:24:31 PM
If you get an email from my red.zebra@hotmail account don't open it, it is a worm that will email all your contacts automatically with info on a money making scam.  My brother sent it to me and it escaped norton and avg somehow

Apologies for any problems

Lawrence
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: scotsoft on February 01, 2012, 05:38:23 PM
I only have a hotmail account because I need one to access certain microsoft sites and one way round this worm problem hotmail is having is not to have any addresses in your hotmail account.

I know it is a pain to have to copy an email address into hotmail to send an email but if there are no email addresses it stops the worm dead  ;)
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: longbridge on February 01, 2012, 08:16:57 PM
Thanks Lawrence.
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: Lawrence on February 01, 2012, 08:29:45 PM
I have now deleted all contacts from my account and changed the password twice, if it keeps happening I don't know what to do.  Annoys me so much that this happens, if I was really to say what I felt I would have to ban myself  :evil: :evil:
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: scotsoft on February 01, 2012, 08:37:40 PM
I was sent an email by the people at hotmail giving me instructions what to do to get rid of the worm.

I don't have that email any longer and I can't remember what I did  :-[

cheers John.
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: Lawrence on February 01, 2012, 08:59:26 PM
Scans picked up win32trojan.agent so that has now gone from my pc, so fingers crossed.
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: Chinahand on February 02, 2012, 03:58:37 AM
I'm surprised it got past Norton. Which one are you using (Internet Security or 360) and are the virus definitions up to date ?
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: Lawrence on February 02, 2012, 08:36:37 AM
My brother uses Norton Trevor, the email came from him  ::) and he is all up to date as it is the pc for his business so he was straight on to his IT man
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: Chinahand on February 02, 2012, 08:55:38 AM
Oooooh. That's worrying  ???

Just found this in today's Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2094982/Threat-new-virus-infected-emails-PC-DONT-open-attachments.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2094982/Threat-new-virus-infected-emails-PC-DONT-open-attachments.html)

It seems there is a new type of computer virus on the loose
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: scotsoft on February 02, 2012, 09:47:02 AM
That certainly is worrying  :o
Title: Re: Possible computer worm
Post by: zwilnik on February 02, 2012, 11:50:18 AM
Make sure that your email client is set so that it doesn't open display remote images in HTML messages for starters. That will at least remove the ability for a remote server to gain information when the message is initially loaded. Not sure if it'll deal with this specific worm as that could just be a problem with holes in the Windows mail client, but it certainly reduces the ability of spammers to get your information and closes one avenue of attack.
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