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Sorry i am not sure what shall i put in the subect line!
I have got a problem with hotmail, my friends are receiving some screen savers from my hotmail account! I mean from 27th December 2002, all of my contacts are receiving emails from my email address and i don’t even send those!
I received same kind of emails from my other mate and he didn’t send those either. I think its a virus or something. Please be aware of that!
one of the emails returned by the yahoo webmaster:Quote:quote: Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
This user doesn’t have a yahoo.com account (my_m8@yahoo.com)— Original message follows.
Return-Path:
The original message is over 5k. Message truncated to 1K.
X-Rocket-Spam: 62.30.233.60
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 62.30.233.60
X-Track: 15: 20
X-Rocket-Server: 66.218.86.246
Return-Path:
Received: from 62.30.233.60 (HELO mx2.mail.yahoo.com) (62.30.233.60)
by mta182.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 02 Jan 2003 08:28:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Faizan Qureshi
To: my_m8@yahoo.com
Subject: You are so sweet
Date: Thu,02 Jan 2003 16:28:32 PM
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type:multipart/mixed;
boundary=#r0xx#–#r0xx#
Content-Type: text/html
charset=”iso-8859-1″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printablehi,
check the attached love screensaver
and feel the fragrance of true love..–#r0xx#
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name=love.scr
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=”love.scr”TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAA8AAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1v
ZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAAAVPC8qUV1BeVFdQXlRXUF5KkFNe
*** MESSAGE TRUNCATED ***Please help me out…what can i do to stop these?
It sounds like a virus, do you have Anti-Virus software? If you do, run the full system virus scanner now! Try searching for the love.scr file and delete it from your system. I’d also suggest while doing this you disconnect yourself from the internet so you cannot infect anyone else.
If you do not have an Anti-Virus, check this free one out: http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_downl.htm or use Google to find more.
Always be sure to update your Anti-Virus software, with Virus Definitions and software updates to help protect your system.
Yes it’s a worm virus. It’s been running crazy through my little ring of friends n’ their address books for the last couple weeks *sigh* (I don’t understand how some people can be so gullable…). I’ve helped a few of them n’ it’s turned out to be the worm; W32.Yaha.K@mm
Faizan, please check this article from Norton’s site (removal instructions near the bottom). You recieved that email because the worm (like all worms), tries to distribute by emailing itself around. The worm just happened to hit a dead end.
Please be careful. You should be equipped with a good Anti-Virus software (I would reccomend norton. Hotmail’s mcafee is decent – but doesn’t catch all viruses all the time), n’ always scan incoming email attachments – from everyone. Doesn’t matter even if you know them better than yourself; it could be a worm fooling you. If in doubt – don’t open any unknown attachments at all. I would recommend advising all other users of your computer to do the same.
magistyk, giving the edit button the cold shoulder eh? What did she do to you this time? 🙂
Quote:Thanks everyone for your help and support. I downloaded the antivirus software from the link magistyk provided, because when i installed my windows last month i forgot to install the antivirus program, so i now decided to use that one. Thanks Magistyk.
There were 7 viruses in my system. Here are some of them:
Trojan Horse I Worn/Yaha.M in C:WindowsSystemWinservices
Trojan Horse I Worn/Hotlix etcAnd thanks windy for the article link!
I removed the viruses with the antivirus program steve gave me. And i think it wont send those emails again, i’ll ask my friends tomorrow about the situation.My Documents folder was the one effected by the virus. I couldn’t see any files in there. All the files in that folder became hidden automatically, i had to make them invisible manually after.0
Well, thanks for your help!:)
(PS: I’ll post again if my friends still receive those emails)
Even if the AntiVirus that you downloaded got rid of them, I would suggest using Symantec’s remover just to sure. They always have the best removal tools.
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