I thought it might help those of you that are confused concerning
EdeeW's post here....
The worm didn't originate in Amesbury. It PICKED up the subject line
from Edee's post that the person opened who had an infected computer,
and used that as the reply subject, when it sent itself out to all the
addresses in that user's address book.
And since Edee opened the post, it then would have propagated itself
even further, with Amesbury as the subject to all her addresses in her
email address book. I doubt Edee let the worm infect her system, or
killed it very shortly after discovering it had gotten her.
I am getting posts from everywhere, with the subject as RE: and return
addresses in these posts always start with the underscore _ right now
there are 20 files in the trash that all have RE as the subject that are
carrying the infected file.....
AND nothing shows up, but it says there is an attachment. Doing a View
Page Source, I find the attachment is usually called Pics.DOC.scr
or news_doc.DOC.scr or HAMSTER.DOC.pif or something with 3 sets of
text and two periods. This IS ALWAYS the clue that the file is a
worm/virus, because files don't end with 3 sets of words and 2 dots in
between those words.
Don't open anything! Save it and scan it first with your virus scanner.
If it is clean, then open it. If it is infected, your scanner will kill
it without opening it.
Lori