For the past two weeks I've been getting a flurry of emails with the above mentioned virus... but today... MAN! I must be in everyone's address book! Since midnight, 35 messages with over 16 megabytes of virus-teaming personal documents.

I guess that's the result of being popular. Since I'm not in many people's address book I've only gotten one email trying to infect me with that virus.

I don't know what email software you use, but you may be able to filter it for whatever common thing there is in the headers.

Dave

Nope.

I still get that Ha Ha Seven Dwarfs virus though. About once a month.

My stupid sister passed that one along. I NEVER open an attachment unless I expect it or confirm it's delivery, then it gets scanned first.

She gets the email with that OBVIOUS body AND OPENS THE (*&&%$%^$^*^^$ attachment anyway.

I got the email four times from her before she realized she was STUPID.

According to Symantec this one is pretty prevealent.

According to a good source, the Pentagon got hit pretty hard; although, I have not heard how many of our top minds actually opened the attachment.

PS..the subject line changes EVERY time. The body of the message is unchanged.

Most virus software have updates for this.

Virus! Darn thing, Luck I don't use Microsoft outlook -
Have been receving the e-mail with that sircam about 15 times a day! Please stop it. Lucky I have not opened any of them yet! Plus it comes in a english and spanish version. Please tell it to stop!

I received it twice from a person I didn’t know very well so I was very suspicions of the attachment. Although the text associated with it did have me almost open it. Thank Goodness I didn’t.

I got it and I know who I got it from. No hard feelings dude. ONE zap and I fixed it. But I will say I received it from someone who has Emailed me at home that I meet here and you had a lot of nasty words in your comments about me. So I also would like to extend out a big sorry if anybody caught it from me. As I am not the kind of person who would willingly do something as evil as a W32 worm virus. No matter how much I needed to get even.

Good Luck

Been getting these by the ton for a week or so now. It contains its own SMTP processor so it sends email out all by itself, using your "Windows addressbook" for destination addresses, whatever that means. I suspect that means your "Outlook" addressbook if you have one. I've not read anything implicating addressbooks from other email programs.

Recently I also read on CNet that it will scan your browser's cache of recently-viewed pages and will grab any email addresses it finds there, too. So it could even send itself out to people not even in your formal addressbook. Could be why Daniel is getting so many of these. I think I'm getting a bunch from people who have visited my Kauai page, with my email address all over it. [Link: members.toast.net]

I get so many of these SirCam emails, that I've started rejecting emails (in my smtp server) from people who are infected with it. I just checked my logs and my server has reject 25 messages from this afternoon alone. I might have to write a script that wades through the logs and sends emails to the victims who are spamming me with this virus and point them to the symantec web site. This is ridiculous.

Andrea,

I agree...I think most of us on this forum are probably a little more "sophisticated" than the average computer user. As I posted above, I routinely delete email with unexpected attachments. I bet I miss a lot of funny jokes and things because of this.

I also use my computer for business, and it is vital to that business, so I send a very cordial but firm email to senders of unexpected attachments. It tells them that while I either, love them, like them, appreciate their business, etc., I cannot afford to have a system crash. It goes on to tell them how to be sure I will look at something they want to send.

I also don't open those that are fwd;fwd;fwd;fwd, you know what I mean?

Of course, I also use Norton AV2001 which gets updated definitions every time I log on, and it does a manual update every Friday.

I think most people don't do all of this.

I am curious how you set up to reject those emails.

Mason,

My linux box is my SMTP server. My ISP setup an MX record for me so that all mail to mobius-soft.com gets routed to my linux box. I use Postfix for my SMTP server. Among other things, it has a file called access, which it consults before it delivers mail. Whenever I get a SirCam attachment, I put the person's email address in this file with a reject code and error message. Then whenever they send me email, postfix bounces the email back to them with my error message. It's a manual process with having to add email addresses to the access file, but it's still better than a daily ritual of deleting 30 emails with SirCam from the same individuals.

Another thing I learned as a result of the MX record was that anybody could use my box to send mail. I quickly learned how to setup Postfix so only people with accounts on my linux box can use it to relay mail.

Thanks