WJT Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 A variety of mass mailing trojans (worms) are being delivered to myPhotoNet email address. They take the form of PIF's and ZIP's. Myemail address redirects to my Yahoo account and that is where Ireceive these. I do not get the usual notification that a member hasrequested my email address, so I assume that this may be an automatedinternet scan of the PhotoNet system. Or, it is also possible that amember who has my email address on their system is infected with thismass mailing worm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claudia__ Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 heh, i was envisioning all these condoms showing up in mailboxes! well, ya just never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geri Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 ...I needed that today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJT Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 Dohh! I wish someone would invent an iron clad prophylatic for these worms. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 These are probably not from a worm or a trojan. They are probably an email virus. As you probably know, they result from your email address being in the folders of a mail reader, such as OUtlook, that has been infected by a virus. Once they have infected a systen,hese viruses propagate themselves by sending themselves to all the email addresses they can find on the system. It most likely is not targeted specifically at photo.net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitmstr Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 What I'd like to know is what drives people to spend time writing viruses and worms? With all the things they could do with their time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brla Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 I got one of the .pif files. I STRONGLY recommend Ritlabs' "The Bat" as an e-mail client. It is about as secure as I have found, albeit a bit quirky. One can delete unwanted e-mails from the server, and they never reach your hard drive. "The Bat" would not open the .pif file (program information file) and gave the message "these files will not be opened under any circumstances." On the subject of Internet clients, CERN suggested that one not use Internet Explorer and deemed it dangerous. Presently, I have divorced all clients as much as possible from the Windows XP operating system, using the following: The Bat, Firefox, and Thunderbird, the latter two by Mozilla. They are great. Things are faster and more secure. Also, System Mechanic Pro w/ Panda Antivirus is very effective. I'm sharing these to help with safety, which is a (sadly) dominant issue and a waste of time and energy. Hope this helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john falkenstine Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Yes, they could be writing endless pointless discourses in the Postmodern Photography forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afterthoughts Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Recommend Norton Antispam software. Not expensive and does the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJT Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 I'm still getting them. Looks primarily like the Lovegate virus. I run antivirus software and have a firewall. These are are actually being detected by Yahoo's mail server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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