By Ann Phelan on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 7:18 am: |
It seems Bonaire Reporter or someone on that list has a virus so there are multiple messages being sent particuliarly from one recipient who is out of the office and who has auto reply. I get up to 20 emails from him every 5 minutes.
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By Jan Klos on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 8:05 am: |
Anne,
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By Clay Lansdown on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 8:09 am: |
Yeah I am getting it also. Had 167 messages from Bonaire Reporter. Luckily I have an offline reader with an "exclude address" fuction which is now set to delete the messages before they are downloaded. Still takes a while to work through them.
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By Birgit on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 8:27 am: |
Looks like the problem is solved.
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By Bill & Cheryl Rathborne on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 9:14 am: |
Anyone know if this thing is spawning a virus if the message is read? There didn't appear to be any attachments.
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By Dean Botsford on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 9:35 am: |
The latest edition of tTe Bonaire Reporter is on-line Re: The Bonaire Reporter is Available
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By Linda Richter - NetTech on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:50 am: |
We've been bombarded for over a week with the Klez virus. We actually have taken the step of blocking email to all our customers from known infected senders. The problem is also that the to: field can be any email address from the infected computer and not the actual sender. And it has over 120 message variants with almost any type of attachment including .exe, .pif, .vcf, .bat, or even no suffix at all.
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By Leigh Ann on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 12:10 pm: |
Linda, did you get the email I sent you several days ago about the coffee? Haven't heard from you about which flavors and sizes. We have been having trouble with our email. Our provider is blocking some emails so if you replied, I didn't get it!
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 1:09 pm: |
The Bonaire Reporter mailing was the result of a mail loop caused by a vacation message sent by the mail server of one of the list subscribers. Not a virus. Just got off the phone with George DeSalvo and he thinks it's all fixed such that it won't happen again.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 1:17 pm: |
Leigh Ann,
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By Carole Baker on Saturday, May 4, 2002 - 1:22 pm: |
Well, kids...it seems to be happening again today...I just went to check on my email while surfing BT and there were five or six more emailings from unknown folks announcing the Latest Edition of Bonaire Reporter....I hope they can permanently straighten this out as it could get taxing after a while....can someone on Bonaire contact George to let him know it is happening again today, May 4?? It just did it a few moments ago around 1:00PM or so. Thanks!! Carole
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By Ann Phelan on Saturday, May 4, 2002 - 1:34 pm: |
Same here Carole,
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 3:30 pm: |
I just got a note from George that he had freelist.org purge the list to avoid future problems...
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By Sarah on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 3:32 pm: |
I just finished deleting 45 messages from my in-box! Yikes...
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By Carole Baker on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 6:01 pm: |
Would you believe after all of the "notifications" of the Latest Edition of the Bonaire Reporter being emailed to me, I have forgotten to actually access the website to read the Latest Edition of the Bonaire Reporter!! I deleted all of the notifications so "out of sight...out of mind" ....LOL. I do hope this problems is resolved now. I know poor George must be going nuts with this problem, too. Carole
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By Faith M. Senie on Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:13 pm: |
THe first few hundred messages from that one person were part of the mail loop. All the subsequent messages were all the hacked-off subscribers yelling about the extra email (and thereby creating even more extra email!)...
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By Sarah on Friday, May 10, 2002 - 4:34 am: |
There's yet another virus being sent out to everyone in your address book. If you get it, please don't delete the file. If by chance you have already deleted the file please go to this link for information:
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By michael gaynor on Friday, May 10, 2002 - 7:05 am: |
Beware, this is a hoax..Don't delete anyhing.
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By Glen Reem on Friday, May 10, 2002 - 12:29 pm: |
Per the most recent note, George not only had FreeList purge the list, he purged FreeList from Bonaire Reporter. Now we will get no weekly notification, we just log in and read the paper each Friday.
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By Carole Baker on Friday, May 10, 2002 - 7:00 pm: |
Michael is correct...it is a hoax. A friend of mine sent me a note telling me to delete this .exe and I knew enough to do some research first. Do NOT delete this .exe..it is harmless and part of the Windows package for Java script. Carole
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