email virus?

[smokinreefer]

hey folks,
might be a virus goin around....
within 20 minutes i got 2 emails...
one from a chris.monner@maxpasley.com , which i dont recognize...
and one from newsletter@jlaquatics.com , both with attachements of 22.5kb in size... named body.pif and text.cmd respectively.
oh yeah, they were both sent to my email that i use for reef stuff, boards etc.

anyone else seeing this?

FWIW, the body of the email is all jibberish... and of course i didnt open the attachment, so i cant tell you whats in that!

[Chad]

I have not gotten any emails from J&L with viruses.. not yet anyways.. I'd give em a call and have them do a virus check.. sounds like they maybe infected?

[AJ_77]

I got 2 tonight for my reefs address as well, one from acryliccity.com, the other from a stranger.

Watch out.

[EmilyB]

some people have gotten an emai from me, including myself, even thought I do not have their emails on my system. I have full uptodate virus protection, but this virus was just posted today, so I am doing a scan at the moment.

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=mydoom

[kris]

i had it come in from two places one was from EmilyB and the other was some one i did not recognize on yahoo. the subject was HI and it was a .Scr file.


Seems to be hitting alot of people globaly

[Aquattro]

I've had a few trying to forward themselves off of my mail server. I'm checking all my machines now. Such fun....

[Scavenger]

Yup I got nailed with them from two of my own email accounts and they self opened somehow. The virus is
MIMAIL.R and the subject line was either test, status or Rfdqas. Unfortunatly I had pc cillen disabled at the time had system resouces freed up for video games. Didn't take long to get rid of them though.

[Samw]

I use Linux ELM to read mail so I don't ever get viruses. Deb, is your McAfee configure to scan Email in addition to your system? If only set to scan the System, then viruses won't get detected until you open your email. Then its too late.

[smokinreefer]

hahhah...just got 2 more...one minute after eachother...
test.zip and ppqq.zip subjects...test, error, hi.
again only to my reef related email address.

[EmilyB]

yes, I've checked with my address book people and they haven't had anything, only reef people.

Yes Sam, it is set to scan email.

When I opened my email, it had identified the one sent to me.