Has anyone got a lot of E-Mails from Camaro guys. got a lot this weekend and I have not open any because I do not know them. So if you sent me one let me know. I do not open anything from some one I do not know.

Thanks TIM

[ 03-02-2004, 09:26 AM: Message edited by: DjD ]

I GOT SEVERAL SAT & SUN I THING 1 WAS FROM
69SS350 BUT DIDN'T OPEN ANY OF THEM

My suggestion is: the sender should write 'Team Camaro' in the title block of the message so the receiver would know its origin of being sent by a fellow member.

yeah i've been getting alot of strange mails lately but if it looks fishy or i don't recognize the guy i won't open it. good suggestion from everett graemlins/thumbsup.gif
zack68

Thanks a lot. I got one frm ss350 and ss70 and vett454 and about 10 others.

Thanks a lot
TIM

Hmmmm, that's wierd. If it is a virus being sent, it would be someone from here, no?

Everyone,

Sure it could be from a fellow TC member! However if it's being sent from a member, do him a favor and send something back letting him know that you suspect that he may been infected with the Netsky or Bagle virus and that they should inspect their PC as they are sending copies of these to everyone in their address books
The way that these virus' spread is that the virus sends itself to everyone in the users address book without the user knowing

Best of luck,

Tom

Welcome to the world of the "W32/NETSKY.C@MM" virus.

I guess it looks like someone on this site has been infected. It isnt harmful, but it does however suck up e-mail addresses thou.....

Tim, I'm the Activities Director for my local Camaro club, so I get tons and tons of emails, but not from TC folks...I do however get a bunch that say "delivery failure" and I never sent them :confused: I have run different virus protection software and can't find any problems...


Dan B graemlins/beers.gif

The "From" is spoofed so e-mailing the sender isn't helping anything.


Here's more on this current worm...

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.c@mm.html?Open

[ 03-03-2004, 11:58 AM: Message edited by: DjD ]

Dan

I get those also. The reason why is:

Your email address is in the computer of the person who has the virus. The virus uses the email addresses (in the infected comp) to send the virus emails. It will use the email addresses in the infected computer as the sender (so you cant trace where it originated) and sends it to another email address it finds in the infected computer. I hope this makes sense. You get the message back that the message was undeliverable because it (the infected comp) used your email address and it was actually undeliverable.

You more than likely do not have a virus in your computer.

Dennis

That's a great idea, I just went and changed mine. I didnt think the virus could work that way.

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Thanks Jonesy!!! I won't worry about that crap any more...I'll focus my worries more towards sanding the car ;)

Dano

Thanks Dennis and Jonesy

Some good reading to go along with this subject...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttpcworld/20040226/tc_techtues_pcworld/114950&cid=1740&ncid=1729

Your email address should not be kept in anyone's cached files, it's only the page you viewed and the email is not embedded on it.
They are only available via a call to the web server script and asking for it. They can probably still be found by following a lot of links, but not on anyone's hard drive.

The option of having our server handle ALL the mail requests for everyone here is not something we can handle at this time.

One problem is members change their email and forget to update it here and we get enough bounces back from the 'notify me of replies' that we may have to disable that feature. I currently get plenty of emails asking how to contact someone whose email is out of date and can only imagine the extra volume if someone emails via the program and doesn't hear anything back.
We also get flagged by some isp's as the software generated replies from servers look suspiciously like spam. Countless hours are wasted convincing companies like road runner that we are not spammers - after they block all mail from our server.

I like the idea, but just can't envision it working yet, unless I set the return address to a dumpster and forget about who blocks us.

DJD,
The No option doesn't say "No, but allow members to mail me through this board"[/b], it says "No and don't allow members to mail me"

Sorry, I had to turn the feature off per my post above. We couldn't handle all the issues that are associated with using that feature right now.

An example just came in today which might have had rather nasty consequences.

ACTUAL EMAIL:
Dear user, the management of Camaros.net mailing system wants to let you know that,

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information.

Pay attention on attached file.

Attached file protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 00378.

Sincerely,
The Camaros.net team

File attached could be anything, but the popular one is: Information.zip


DELETE THIS EMAIL - WE DID NOT SEND IT
A new round of virus threats are out and taking on a malicious new approach to convincing you to install their virus, back-doors and trojans.

Al; the one you mention above this post just came in to my daughter's email address on my pc looking like it came from my ISP with a supposed security attachment from snet.net in my case. Is this a new one making the rounds? Fortunately the one thing my kids have learned from me is not to open attachments from anyone without Dad seeing things first.

toast that email Bob, that's the nasty one. It pretends to come from legitimate sources that you might expect to receive email like that from.

I imagine a lot of system admins are busy answering mail on this one!

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