Message from Yahoogroups.com

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:06 am

I got this message from the old yahoo group. Does anyone know if this means our personal email addresses are being "spoofed," or just the yahoogroups.com address?

Dear user of "Yahoogroups.com" mailing system,

Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing
from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up
your computer software.

Please, read the attach for further details.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "20188".

Kind regards,
The Yahoogroups.com team

Post by **negusm** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:20 am

I scanned yhe payload and it has a virus:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusen ... AGLE.GEN-1

I'm not sure what is going on but my guess is that Sandy has a virus of some kind.

-Mike

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:18 am

WHY ME? lAST WEEK i HAD A COMPUTER EXPERT CLEAN MY ENTIRE SYSTEM, INSTALL NEW NORTON ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE AND OTHER GOODIES. IT WAS LAST SATURDAY, THE 19TH.

Post by **negusm** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:25 am

Sandy, I would wait. You don't even really know if that message came from your machine.

That worm is a low threat so wait and see if you see anything else happen. Norton should protect you.

Honestly...you may want to consider a new machine with Windows XP Home or something more stable than Windows 98 (I think you mentioned you were running 98 ).

As bad as some of the holes still in XP are, the ones still in Windows 98, you can drive a convoy through.

-Mike

Euro#13 · Post by **Euro#13** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:31 pm

I would agree with Mike on that.
I was hesitant about going to XP from '98SE but I did about a year ago and it has been the most trouble-free computer I have ever had.

Definately recommend it now.

Brent