bloody idiots who open email attachments

[boodie]

out of 120 emails, 64 had that fucking virus attached to them.

are people really that thick..

DO NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS!

Comments

[eozarth.livejournal.com]

Have to agree with you there boodie

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

how many times do people have to be told, how many major viruses have their been the past 3 years and yet people still do IT!!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

That's excessive... my dad was getting worried about the viruses but we have him sorted with Eudora, which is pretty virus proof, plus up to date Norton and he *knows* not to open attachments, and we explained its the idiots who are at risk. Seems we were right :(

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

yes, lots of idiots whi cant work spam filters and virus protection..

[ozonegriffox.livejournal.com]

I also got SPAMMED by this fucking virus. 100k each. I'm on 33k. It takes LONG to download my emails. I just closed the account.

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

I use Mailwasher on my email account, so it marks them as viruses, and i can delete them from my ISPs end without me havibg to download em.

[lorriejharris.livejournal.com]

>.< *GROAN* I lost count of the number of emails I got with that stupid virus attached to it...and they all came from the yahoogroups email we used for the Ops in #loth. Mirar might be disabling the feature fo awhile.

I never opened a single one. I never open attachments from that email addy anyway. There's no reason for an attachment to even be there. I just dumped them all in the recycle bin, then deleted them again from there. My virus scan runs automaticlly at 1am daily, and so far, I've been clean. *WHEW*

From what I read about this virus, it can come from a recognized name on the email...you open it, thinking that it's safe, then it starts sending out emails to everyone on the list on it's own.

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

*nods* even its from someone whose name i recognise, i never open them, unless i have been told beforehand that they are sending me something.

[seyruuenfennec.livejournal.com]

Of the 30 or so virus spam messages I got, half or so of them were from relatives and my parents. Ive been commissioned with the special task of cleaning up the mess. -.-

We shall see on Sunday what comes of this nonsense, in the meantime I can reccomend following good dragon advise, since she summed it up best ^.^

-Seyru

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

Oooh, have fun with that hon 8-)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

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[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

LOL LOL LOL

thats so painfully true

Curious...

[benthecube.livejournal.com]

That's odd, I didn't receive the virus at all.

Which means one of three things:
A) I have intelligent, computer savvy friends.
B) I have friends who head my warnings. Or
C) I have no friends.

Cross your fingers that it's either A or B. I am.

Re: Curious...

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

It's A and B for sure

[elektron.livejournal.com]

I get both no spam and no viruses, because people who have my addy aren't that stupid, and my addy isn't stuffed up anywhere.

Admittedly, a couple teachers at school got iloveyou (THAT was an odd thing in my inbox) but that's no longer one of my primary addys.

Yes, people are stupid =P

[pheonixfeathers.livejournal.com]

... you mean you look at your e-mail?
crap I just universally delete everything no adays ...
... heh, so if you e-mail me .. warn me first, but not by e-mail ...