[Mb-hair] MORE IMPORTANT - from the List Mama

[Michael Butler]

Thanks to List Mama and Cheese.
I use Entourage for email and Firefox as my browser. I do have Explorer and
Safari but rarely use them anymore. I am preparing to go to Apple's email in
place of Microsoft's Entourage next week when I install the new Mac OS
"Tiger" (my former nickname, now my son's).
For the first time I am getting anti virus application.
However I do open attachments from sources I do not know.
Final Note: Get a Mac you will thank me. I started with Dos. I have been
thanking my sister since leaving the 'evil empire' for a Mac.
XO Michael

> Hey Cheese (and anyone else interested...)
> 
> Michael didn't open the virus - his email address is just like yours in the
> undeliverable emails you are getting back. Michael uses a Mac which is
> blissfully immune to most viruses. Someone who uses a PC, and most likely
> Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and who has our emails addresses
> (Michael, you, lamama, bunim murray productions...), as well as both the
> Hair and Civic list, in their address book opened the virus. It is hard to
> pinpoint the person who is infected. A good rule of thumb for those of us
> using PCs is to never open attachments from ANYONE if they are not the usual
> file extensions.For instance,  .jpg and .doc. and .exl and others that we
> deal with regularly are fine. Avoid anything with unual file extensions,
> like .scr and .pif or anything else you are not used to seeing regularly. If
> it comes from someone you know, but has an odd extension email the person it
> came from and ask them if they sent it and what it is BEFORE OPENING IT. Two
> important things to remember: You must open the attachment in order to
> become infected by the virus most of the time (although the virus makers
> have come up with a few numbers that can be embedded in html in an email,
> but that is still rare, and not what is going around the list at this
> point). Secondly,just because your name appears as the sender of an infected
> email it does not mean that you have the virus, rather that someone who has
> you in their email address book has (or had) the virus. The single most
> important thing that you can do is invest in a good anti-virus program, such
> as Norton Anti-Virus or other similar programs, for your computer, and use
> it regularly to scan all incoming email and your entire computer regularly.
> And keep your virus definitions updated within the program.
> 
> If the list of email address above sounds suspiciously like anyone's address
> book email me privately, at this address, and I can give you the specific
> addresses at those domaines and you can see if you need to scan your
> computer.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Nina
> 
> P.S. - to those in digest format please excuse my leaving Cheeseburger's
> entire email attached below, but as I am sending this to the Hair list as
> wel,l there are many who haven't seen the original post and need to read it
> to understand what I amtalking about.
> 
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> 
> 
>> From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
>> Reply-To: mb-civic at islandlists.com
>> To: "mb-civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
>> Subject: [Mb-civic] IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
>> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:52:41 -0500
>> 
>> IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to put my 2 cents in on this one, maybe it will help someone, or
>> even help me.
>> 
>> Ok, I was wondering what was going on, as I am now receiving emails to
>> myself from my isp server saying "Mail Undeliverable", but it also says it
>> was sent originally to whomever by me at maxfury at granderiver.net, which it
>> wasn't.  This has been going on for about a week or so I think.
>> 
>> So, let me know, heh, this is serious, if Michael opened up a virus thing
>> and it scanned his Address Book, then that's why I'm getting "Undeliverable
>> Mail Returned" not sent by me to who knows how many people, but saying it
>> was sent from my email address, so whoever was in his Address Book it has
>> snapped up our email addresses and is sending viruses to countless people
>> with viruses in them saying that we sent them, heh.
>> 
>> Anyway, I was wondering what was going on.  Just for the record, I have not
>> received an email from anyone in a long time, I access the MB Civic List
>> from The Internet directly, and rarely if ever open anything from there in
>> my Internet Browser that says "attachment attached" or whatever.
>> 
>> In fact, I really wish people would NOT send attachments of any kind (I
>> don't know if that's possible or not) and rather than an ***Attachment***
>> (which a rather stout proportion of posts on the MB Civic Lists contain
>> *just* them rather than even just a body in the post) put *at least* a
>> website address instead where the information, jpeg or whatever can be
>> directly accessed.  But then again I'm just wishing.
>> 
>> Other than that, that's my take on it.  If anyone needs copies of the
>> emails
>> of "Undeliverable Mail" that was/was not sent by me but returned to me
>> because of "Fatal Errors", I will gladly forward them on if they will be of
>> any use.
>> 
>> Let me know if it all gets fixed, what's going on, or if there will be
>> emails using my email address to send out viruses to people around the
>> world
>> until the end of time or something.
>> 
>> All in all, I have a feeling this is not going to help me sell mesquite
>> bowls on the Internet, lol.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheeseburger
> 
> 
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